ConsideredbymanytobethefounderofmodernChineseliterature,hewroteinbaihua(白话)(thevernacular)aswellasclassicalChinese
LuXunwasashortstorywriter,editor,translator,critic,essayistandpoet
Inthe1930shebecamethetitularheadoftheChineseLeagueofLeft-WingWritersinShanghai
LuXun'sworksexertedaverysubstantialinfluenceaftertheMayFourthMovementtosuchapointthathewaslionizedbytheCommunistregimeafter1949
MaoZedonghimselfwasalifelongadmirerofLuXun'sworks
ThoughsympathetictotheidealsoftheLeft,LuXunneveractuallyjoinedtheChineseCommunistParty
LuXun'sworksareknowntoEnglishreadersthroughnumeroustranslations,especiallySelectedStoriesofLuHsuntranslatedbyYangHsien-yiandGladysYang
hasbeenconsideredoneofthemostinfluentialChinesewritersofthe20thcenturyandthefounderofmodernbaihua(白话baihua),orvernacular,lit