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阿Q正傳

By Lu Xun

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Cover: Clearing Autumn Sky over a Fishing Village by Wang Hui (1632-1717) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Ah Q, a village odd-job man who turns every humiliation into a private victory, drifts toward the 1911 Revolution without understanding it. Lu Xun's novella is a comic and merciless portrait of a man and, through him, of a nation. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: 序
  2. 2: 優 勝 記 略
  3. 3: 續優勝記略
  4. 4: 戀愛的悲劇
  5. 5: 生 計 問 題
  6. 6: 從中興到末路
  7. 7: 革  命
  8. 8: 不 准 革 命
  9. 9: 大 團 圓