Ah Q and Others (1941)
by Lu Xun, translated by Wang Chi-chen
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Ah Q AND OTHERS

Ah Q AND
OTHERS


SELECTED STORIES
OF Lusin


TRANSLATED BY CHI-CHEN WANG

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS • NEW YORK

1941

Copyright 1941

Columbia University Press, New York

Foreign agents: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford;
Amen House, London, E.C. 4, England, and B. I. Building,
Nicol Road, Bombay, India; Maruzen Company, Ltd.,
6 Nihonbashi, Tori-Nichome, Tokyo, Japan

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY BROTHER CHI-KUEH

born 1907 and killed in the bombing of Chungking in the spring of 1940, just as a new Road to Life opened up before him with its promise of the freedom and independence to which he was stranger all his life, I dedicate these translations of Lusin whom we both admired above all other Chinese writers, ancient and modern, and who did more than any one else to clear the Road to Life of the weeds of tradition and of the traps and pitfalls that man-eating men set for the young, the unwary, and the helpless.

Contents
INTRODUCTION, BY CHI-CHEN WANG vii
MY NATIVE HEATH 3
THE CAKE OF SOAP 16
THE DIVORCE 31
REUNION IN A RESTAURANT 45
THE STORY OF HAIR 59
CLOUD OVER LUCHEN 65
OUR STORY OF AH Q 77
A HERMIT AT LARGE 130
REMORSE 158
THE WIDOW 184
THE DIARY OF A MADMAN 205

Ah Q AND OTHERS

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