Steven Li
Prof. Yang
CHIN 355
November 8 2016
A Critique of China:
The Connection of Writing Style in Yu Hua and Lu Xun writing Lu Xun’s heavily anti-feudalism and anti-Confucian and Yu Hua’s “China in Ten Words” represent that Chinese citizens have no rights to speak for themselves due to the low level of living environment and corrupted government’s policies also called dictatorship. In both of their works, they seem have nothing similar because they are talking about two completely different things according to their experience, background, and what they had suffered, nevertheless, these are the reasons why they speak for mainland China because so many Chinese citizens are not satisfied with the circumstance, but they were so afraid to …show more content…
Lu Xun preferred Metaphor, and Yu Hua preferred record on actual-events. “After Tiananmen Zhao Ziyang disappeared from view, and nothing more was heard of him until his death in 2005.” (Yu, 2011) According to the quotation, Yu Hua recorded how June 4th was forgotten, and people were unable to hear anything about Zhao Ziyang due to the censorship and resource blocking from Chinese government, so there was no any media or publishing firms could post anything about June 4th and Zhao Ziyang because of the government pressure. “a remnant of its hallowed tradition of humane government-offers a slender hope that some honest official might dispense justice where law has failed” (Yu, 2011) Those years, people wanted to protect themselves by finding help from the justice system but the justice system associated undesirable elements with the government, so the last hope of people was also disappeared. He recorded the past history to tells the truth of the disadvantages of China. In “China in Ten Word” Yu Hua record every disadvantages of mainland China; he wrote everything directly without any kind of metaphor, so he had no opportunity to publish “China in Ten Words” in his own home district, and forced to publish in Taiwan with freedom of speech. When it comes to Chou Hsu Jen’s works, he metaphorized his story to criticize his old China. “I too am a man, and they want to eat me!” (Lu, 1918) So many people might be so confused with the quotation and thought that this is about “Cannibalism” that means people are eating each other and like zombies, but this is actually not the real meaning of the quotation. On the contrary, that is the essence of metaphor, the author does not write anything directly and try to make reader to image the circumstance and think about what really happened. In “A Madman’s diary”, Lu Xun condemned the traditional culture and feudalist and disclosed the sham
Prof. Yang
CHIN 355
November 8 2016
A Critique of China:
The Connection of Writing Style in Yu Hua and Lu Xun writing Lu Xun’s heavily anti-feudalism and anti-Confucian and Yu Hua’s “China in Ten Words” represent that Chinese citizens have no rights to speak for themselves due to the low level of living environment and corrupted government’s policies also called dictatorship. In both of their works, they seem have nothing similar because they are talking about two completely different things according to their experience, background, and what they had suffered, nevertheless, these are the reasons why they speak for mainland China because so many Chinese citizens are not satisfied with the circumstance, but they were so afraid to …show more content…
Lu Xun preferred Metaphor, and Yu Hua preferred record on actual-events. “After Tiananmen Zhao Ziyang disappeared from view, and nothing more was heard of him until his death in 2005.” (Yu, 2011) According to the quotation, Yu Hua recorded how June 4th was forgotten, and people were unable to hear anything about Zhao Ziyang due to the censorship and resource blocking from Chinese government, so there was no any media or publishing firms could post anything about June 4th and Zhao Ziyang because of the government pressure. “a remnant of its hallowed tradition of humane government-offers a slender hope that some honest official might dispense justice where law has failed” (Yu, 2011) Those years, people wanted to protect themselves by finding help from the justice system but the justice system associated undesirable elements with the government, so the last hope of people was also disappeared. He recorded the past history to tells the truth of the disadvantages of China. In “China in Ten Word” Yu Hua record every disadvantages of mainland China; he wrote everything directly without any kind of metaphor, so he had no opportunity to publish “China in Ten Words” in his own home district, and forced to publish in Taiwan with freedom of speech. When it comes to Chou Hsu Jen’s works, he metaphorized his story to criticize his old China. “I too am a man, and they want to eat me!” (Lu, 1918) So many people might be so confused with the quotation and thought that this is about “Cannibalism” that means people are eating each other and like zombies, but this is actually not the real meaning of the quotation. On the contrary, that is the essence of metaphor, the author does not write anything directly and try to make reader to image the circumstance and think about what really happened. In “A Madman’s diary”, Lu Xun condemned the traditional culture and feudalist and disclosed the sham