Madmen and Other Survivors – Reading Lu Xun′s Fiction

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at Manchester University, and before that, Professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong. He is author of several books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and cultural texts, including Becoming Posthumous (2001), Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (Hong Kong University Press 2002), and Lost in the American City: Dickens, James, Kafka (2001) and Blake's Night Thoughts (2004).

Most Lu Xun scholars... Simply cannot jettison the traditional baggage of 'LuXunography' which over the years has grown stale. Thus Madmen and Other Survivors comes like a whiff of fresh air. It will certainly be a challenge, and I for one would like to use it in my courses and recommend it to other scholars and students. -- Leo Ou-fan Lee