China's first center for research on Lu Xun, one of the country's greatest thinkers and a man of letters in the 20th century, was inaugurated Monday at Qingdao University in east China's Shandong Province.
The research center, to be jointly run by Qingdao University and the Beijing-based Lu Xun Museum, will invite well-known Chinese and overseas experts on Lu Xun as guest researchers, the Guangming Daily quoted Xu Jianpei, president of university, as saying.
Lu Xun, born in Shaoxing County of east China's Zhejiang Province in 1881 and died in 1936, wrote a number of literary classics including The True Story of Ah Q, A Madman's Diary, Kong Yiji and Medicine, which exposed the ugly side of human nature and emancipated people's minds.
While he was still alive, his works stood as a lighthouse guiding perplexed Chinese youths who were passionate about China’s future.
Over the past decades, ten of thousands of experts and scholars across the world have engaged in the study of Lu Xun's works and thoughts from almost every possible angle, including culture, psychology, arts, linguistics, love and the view of life.
(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2002)
