ABSTRACT
Lu Hsun has become a major cultural/literary enterprise of the regime. He was the most important and influential writer of his time in China. The contrast between Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Lu Hsun was great enough without this added display by Lu Hsun of Chinese-style modesty. During the Cultural Revolution, Lu Hsun's works disappeared, along with most others, but have since begun to be re-issued. He spent his last years helping, organizing, and protecting younger writers caught up in the political turmoil and the pressures of Kuomintang repression and Communist demands on their roles as writers, an issue on which Lu Hsun always sharply differed with his Communist friends and would-be mentors. Lu Hsun and Mao Tun continued their correspondence with the chapter through the spring of 1934, as have already indicated, until they finished work on what eventually became the book Straw Sandals.
