This founder of the short-lived journal New Life died in the midst of translating Gogol's Dead Souls. He characterized his country as a suffocating "iron house" in the preface to his first short story collection, Call to Arms, and described the wife of Xiang Lin, a former servant who dies after being ostracized from her community, in "The New-Year's Sacrifice." Another of his short stories ends with the line "Save the children" and concerns a man who believes that he is 
This founder of the short-lived journal New Life died in the midst of translating Gogol's Dead Souls. He characterized his country as a suffocating "iron house" in the preface to his first short story collection, Call to Arms, and described the wife of Xiang Lin, a former servant who dies after being ostracized from her community, in "The New-Year's Sacrifice." Another of his short stories ends with the line "Save the children" and concerns a man who believes that he is surrounded by cannibals, while the title character of his best-known short story criticizes the "Imitation Foreign Devil" and deceives himself into characterizing defeats as "spiritual victories." FTP, name this Chinese author of "A Madman's Diary" and "The True Story of Ah Q".
This founder of the short-lived journal New Life died in the midst of translating Gogol's Dead Souls.
{Lu Xun} or {Lu Hsün} or {Zhou Shuren}