Old Tales Retold

For many years Lu Xun was hailed as the cultural standard bearer of the Chinese revolution, coming to the fore in the bourgeois revolutionary period of China and heralding the socialist revolution he never lived to see. But politics aside, he may be considered the father of modern Chinese literature, which was ushered in with the changes of the twentieth century.

Old Tales Retold is a collection of Lu Xun's short fictions, including eight works written in different eras. These works carried the consistent writing style, humorous and hilarious, critical and tactful. The contents of his stories origin from history, and after the author's artificial it presents a wonderful and interesting painting for readers.