Lu Xun (1881-1936) is one of China’s most celebrated essayist and short-story writers. His writing “was peerless–at once sardonic and sentimental, burning with the idealism of youth in one passage, then cold, bleak and despairing in the next.” (Wealth and Power, page 152). Lu also spent time in Japan, originally to attend medical school. Propaganda… Read more »
The Anhui Common Speech Journal lasted only two years. Chen bounced back and forth between China and Japan as the Qing Dynasty crumbled, waiting for his opportunity to get involved in Chinese politics. In 1915, Chen reemerged on the scene with a new publication. Chen’s second journal, New Youth, became one of the most influential publications for young…
Chen moved to his native Anhui province and launched a journal, in the mold of Liang Qichao in Japan. Chen’s Anhui Commong Speech Journal was influenced by the same Social Darwinist ideas running through the work of Yan Fu and Liang Qichao. At the same time, Chen founded the Anhui Patriotic Society to help stir up patriotism…