Lu Xun

Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese writer and a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. He wrote novels, essays, literary criticism, poems and political commentary, with a sharp, satirical style aimed at Chinese history and culture. His fiction includes Diary of a Madman and Other Stories and Call to Arms, short stories with a satirical edge. Diary of a Madman, published in 1918, was the first novel written in vernacular Chinese. He died in 1936.