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Reconstructing Lu Xun: The Shifting Image of a Chinese Icon in the Anglophone World
LIU Sai-wen
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.04.001
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
This paper explores the divergent receptions of Lu Xun in China and the Anglophone world, examining how his image has been constructed, exalted, and contested across ideological and cultural boundaries. In China, Lu Xun is revered as a literary saint and revolutionary prophet, with his contributions to the New Culture Movement and critiques of feudalism canonized in public memory. In contrast, Anglophone scholarship has deconstructed his figure, focusing on translation politics, Cold War anxieties, postcolonial theory, and aesthetic modernism. Western critics have examined his ethical ambiguities, ideological complexities, and the aesthetic tensions in his work. This comparative analysis highlights how Lu Xun’s legacy reflects both the complexity of his work and the cultural, theoretical, and political contexts of his interpreters.
Lu Xun, literary reception, cultural criticism, aesthetic modernism, Chinese enlightenment
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2025, Vol. 15, No. 4, 263-273
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