Rereading Lu Xun

Are Lu Xun's 60 essays about women's body management?
What possibilities lie behind the feud between the Zhou brothers?
Why can Lu Xun still resonate with us and give us strength a century later?
"Rereading Lu Xun" is a brand-new work by Professor Xu Zidong. Following the脉络 of the 2005 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" published by People's Literature Publishing House, he systematically revisits Lu Xun's intellectual world through 60 close reading notes, engaging in a cross-time and space dialogue with the "spiritual warrior" in the 21st century.
From "Grave," "Hot Wind," "Call to Arms," "Pang Huang" to "Wild Grass," "Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk," Ah Q's "spiritual victory method," the madman's "cannibalism," the slave's awakening in "Random Thoughts Under the Lamp," the self-interrogation in "Farewell to the Shadow," the warm recollection in "Mr. Fujino"... the cold gaze in novels, the sharp edge in essays, and the struggles in prose poems run through Lu Xun's lifelong spiritual contradictions. Xu Zidong, with his meticulous textual analysis, witnesses step by step how Lu Xun, in his struggle with these contradictions, transformed from Zhou Shuren to Lu Xun.
Rereading 60 essays, Lu Xun descends from the pedestal of textbooks and returns among us, becoming a three-dimensional person: both sharply critical and painfully self-reflective; both a firm revolutionary and possessing a clear foresight into the fate of intellectuals after the revolution. Over the past century, everyone has seen China's changes, while Lu Xun saw China's unchanging aspects. Xu Zidong said: "Our 'rereading Lu Xun's' 60 essays are all reading Lu Xun's will." Open this book and rediscover Lu Xun's significance for today.