# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lu-xun
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:10.718Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lu-xun"
name: "Lu Xun"
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description: "He turned China's written language inside out. Lu Xun published the first novel in vernacular Chinese — the language people actually spoke — and used it to dissect his country's wounds with a scalpel. The government canonized him. The essays still cut."
tagline: "Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)"
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birthDate: "1881-09-25"
deathDate: "1936-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Zhou Shuren in 1881 to a declining family of scholar-officials in Shaoxing, he set out to study medicine at Tohoku University in Japan, then abandoned it for literature. Financial trouble pulled him back to China, where he taught and worked a ministry post until 1918, when he published "Diary of a Madman" — the first novel written in vernacular Chinese, not the classical form that had ruled for centuries. The May Fourth Movement in 1919 made him a voice of the New Culture Movement; his essays in La Jeunesse became required reading for a generation trying to remake the country. By the late 1920s he'd moved toward Marxism, and in the 1930s stood as nominal leader of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai, writing until his death in 1936. Mao Zedong's admiration later cemented his works into the canon of the People's Republic.