This author looked back on his childhood, which included his grandfather being executed for bribery, in Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and one of his political essays laments "a place where anything from moving a table to refitting a stove will almost always end in bloodshed." The title character of one of his stories is punished for teasing a nun in the street and despises the Imitation Foreign Devil, while another of his works uses cannibalism as a metaphor for his (*) country's political culture. For 10 points, name this Chinese author who used a discussion of Ibsen to address political change in "After Nora Walks Out, What Then?" and also wrote "The True Story of Ah Q" and a work that shares its name with a Gogo
This author looked back on his childhood, which included his grandfather being executed for bribery, in Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and one of his political essays laments "a place where anything from moving a table to refitting a stove will almost always end in bloodshed." The title character of one of his stories is punished for teasing a nun in the street and despises the Imitation Foreign Devil, while another of his works uses cannibalism as a metaphor for his (*) country's political culture. For 10 points, name this Chinese author who used a discussion of Ibsen to address political change in "After Nora Walks Out, What Then?" and also wrote "The True Story of Ah Q" and a work that shares its name with a Gogol story, "Diary of a Madman."
This author looked back on his childhood, which included his grandfather being executed for bribery, in Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and one of his political essays laments "a place where anything from moving a table to refitting a stove will almost always end in bloodshed.
{Lu Xun}