MODERNISM - LU, Xun.

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The True Story of Ah Q. First edition in English of this canonical modernist novel, written by the greatest literary figure in 20th-century China. "Within years of his creation, Ah-Q - Lu Xun's most extended denunciation of the idiotic, able-bodied everyman - had begun to enter the language as expressive shorthand for every imaginable blemish on the national character" (Lovell).The translator, George Kin Leung (1899-1977), was a Chinese-American who lived in China throughout the 1920s. He undertook this translation with Lu's permission and regularly sought the great author's input on matters of sense and tone.

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