Those looking for China’s national spirit won’t find it in Xi Jinping’s writing. But the works of Lu Xun offer a homegrown example that contemporary Chinese can follow as the country writes a script for its next act.
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On May 4, 1919, China’s first mass student demonstration took place in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing to protest a stinging humiliation: The Versailles Treaty, marking the end of World War I, had just decreed that China was to hand over German concessionary rights in Shandong Province to Imperial Japan even though China had supplied personnel to the Allied Forces in Europe. Furious, marching stu
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