Lu Xun is China`s most influential modern writer and essayist

Lu Xun is China`s most influential modern writer and essayist. Born in 1881 in Shaoxing, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine. His life changed when one night he and other Chinese students were ordered to watch a slideshow of Chinese prisoners being executed by Japanese soldiers.
His indignation and feeling of helplessness compelled him to become a writer in order to examine why China was so weak and to build a national consciousness.
He felt that as an doctor, he could only help one person at a time, but as a writer, he could reach the whole nation. To this end, he became a leader of the New Culture Movement, which was a driver at cultural modernization.