Tag Archives: Lu Xun

Lu Xun’s Dragonboat Festival

Posted on December 2, 2011 by admin

Dragonboat Holiday or Dragonboat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.  It is also called Double Fifth.  The story is another story that closely follows Lu Xun’s own life.  For an … Continue reading →

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Learn Chinese Through Chinese Stories – An Introduction to Lu Xun The Father of Modern Chinese Literature

Posted on September 17, 2011 by admin

As part of our Learn Chinese Through Chinese Stories campaign, we would like to introduce one of the most pivotal writers in modern Chinese history.  His name is Lu Xun and his stories have been included in four of our … Continue reading →

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Almost Out! Capturing Chinese Stories: Prose and Poems by Revolutionary Chinese Authors

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

The next book in the Capturing Chinese series is almost out!  We are reading over the final draft of the book before shipping it off for publication.  This book takes a departure from the previous books in our series in … Continue reading →

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The New Year’s Sacrifice Audio Now Available

Posted on May 24, 2011 by admin

We are happy to announce that the accompany audio files for Capturing Chinese: The New Year’s Sacrifice are now available for download.  If you have purchased a copy of the book go to the Chinese audio section of our website: … Continue reading →

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Learn Chinese through Stories: Chinese New Year Special 祝福 － 鲁迅

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

Happy Chinese New Year!  February 3rd marks the official start of the year of the rabbit.  People say that the year of the rabbit will be an easy one where we can kick back and relax.  The year of the … Continue reading →

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Lu Xun in Translation – Three Editions

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin

Lu Xun in Translation – Three Editions Three translations, one author.  Which one should you buy and which one is best?  This blog post is to help would-be buyers decide which translation of Lu Xun’s works is for them. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Ah Q The Real Story – Next Book is in the works

Posted on June 12, 2010 by admin

Good morning everyone! For the past few months I have been putting together the materials for the next book in the Capturing Chinese series. Again the author is Lu Xun, but this book will contain only one story. Ah Q … Continue reading →

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Slow-Chinese 鲁迅和他笔下的人

Posted on May 10, 2010 by admin

Slow-Chinese is a great site to hear interesting dialogs slowly read aloud.  昕煜 (Xinyu) writes each of the dialogues himself and then reads them slowly aloud. He’s really done a good job of putting the site together and on April … Continue reading →

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China and The First World War

Posted on April 30, 2010 by admin

I wrote a while back about China’s involvement in World War I and got a response from one reader that he was utterly surprised that 140,000 Chinese went to Europe to fight with the Allied powers. (They fought as laborers … Continue reading →

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Interview with The China Beat

Posted on April 25, 2010 by admin

On March 25th, 2010 Kate Merkel-Hess of The China Beat interviewed Kevin Nadolny regarding Capturing Chinese. You can read the entire interview at the link below. Capturing Chinese With Help from Lu Xun The China Beat is a gold mine … Continue reading →

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