Kita ikki lu xun biography

Much of my time from 2008 to 2010 was spent taking courses at Athabasca University.

Kita ikki lu xun biography

I thought that it might be interesting to convert a few of my assignments into blogs. For a course titled 'The Pacific Century' I wrote an essay for the assignment question:

Describe and discuss the ways in which Lu Xun and Kita Ikki struggled for the “national souls” of their respective countries in their writings and their actions.

Which of the two was the more influential, and why?

This is what I wrote:

Introduction

Lu Xunwas the pen name of a Chinese writer of short stories and political criticism who became a left-wing hero.  As a young man he spent about five years in Japan and was inspired by the modernization that he saw there.

Kita Ikki was the pen name of a Japanese writer and polemicist who became a prophet of the right.  He spent about eight years in China and – after seeing the aftermath of the 1911 revolution – he was inspired to make