A Mew English-Language Book on 鲁迅

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Julia Lovell, China's First Modern; Lu Xun once said he would rather sit down with  'a glass of reconstituted evaporated milk' than join a revolution. Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 16962299168292.html
(book review on Gloria Davies, Lu Xun's Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2013)

My comment:
(a) Up to now (2:30 pm, May 31), 華爾街日報中文網 has not translated the book review. I presume there will be no translation.
(b) Maxim Gorky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Gorky
(1868-1936; section; section 1.5 Return to Russia: last years)
(i) Diary of a Madman  狂人日记 (1918)
(ii) "The two volumes of short fiction he produced between 1918 and 1925, 'Outcry' and 'Hesitation'"
(A) Outcry  呐喊 (1922)
(B) Hesitation  彷徨
(iii) KONG Yiji  孔乙己 (1919)
(iv) Tomorrow  明天 (1920)
(v) Medicine  药 (1919)
(vi) The Real Story of Ah-Q  阿Q正传 (1921)

(c) "The grandson of a high-ranking member of the Beijing civil service, Lu Xun was born into the fraying, fin de siècle world of late imperial China."
(i) fin de siècle (n; French, end of the century; First Known Use 1890):
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fin%20de%20si%C3%A8cle
(ii) siècle (noun masculine): "century"

(d) Lu Xun said, "However rude a nation was in physical health, if its people were intellectually feeble, they would never become anything other than cannon fodder or gawping spectators."

rude (adj): "ROBUST, STURDY <in rude health>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rude
(e) "To him, imperial China's antiquarianism was a means of silencing the uneducated majority."

For antiquarianism, see antiquarian (adj):
"of or relating to antiquarians or antiquities"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antiquarianism
(f) League of Left-wing Writers  中国左翼作家联盟
(g) For Chinese communits, "Lu Xun was a fine trophy: the lampooner-in-chief of early 20th-century China who failed to live long enough to say anything nasty about Mao's brave new world."

Brave New World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
(a 1931 bpok by Aldous Huxley)