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Lu Hsün and the Communist Party

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Harriet C. Mills
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In terms of his impact on the young intelligentsia of China, particularly in the 1930s, and of the emotional symbolism as patriot and reformer with which his name is charged, Lu Hsün (1881–1936) was the most powerful figure in modern Chinese letters. For the last seven years of his life he was openly identified with Communist-led left-wing cultural movements in China. Today he is honoured by the Chinese Communist Party as the great cultural hero of the Chinese Revolution. His homes have become museums, jiis tomb a shrine. He is presented as a Communist in everything but name.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 4 , December 1960 , pp. 17 - 27
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1960

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