{"id":14390,"date":"2007-08-28T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/28\/so-long-lu-xun-arthur-waldron\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T21:57:18","slug":"so-long-lu-xun-arthur-waldron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/so-long-lu-xun-arthur-waldron\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Lu Xun &#8211; Arthur Waldron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.istar.upenn.edu\/scholars\/arthur_waldron.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Waldron<\/a> wrote the following on the blog of Commentary Magazine:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFrom China comes news, reported in the Chinese-language newspaper World Journal, that the works of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lu_xun\" target=\"_blank\">Lu Xun<\/a>&#8220;the country&#8217;s greatest modern author, a founder of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, and a longtime favorite of the Communists&#8221;are being removed from high school curricula. These classics will be replaced by contemporary fantasies about ancient knights and swordplay by the popular Hong Kong author Jin Yong. The reason for this censorship? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fillthesquare.org\/factsheet.asp\" target=\"_blank\">The Tiananmen Massacre<\/a>, of which Lu Xun&#8217;s works uncomfortably remind the Chinese government.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/contentions\/index.php\/waldron\/843#more-843\" target=\"_blank\"> [Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Waldron wrote the following on the blog of Commentary Magazine: From China comes news, reported in the Chinese-language newspaper World Journal, that the works of Lu Xun&#8220;the country&#8217;s greatest modern author, a founder of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, and a longtime favorite of the Communists&#8221;are being removed from high school curricula. 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