2 Lu Xun and chaos theory
2.1 The world of “The True Story of Ah Q”
Lu Xun (1881-1936) is the father of Chinese modern literature. He was the paradox that lived through the period of the Chinese revolution (1911). Therefore he broke with old tradition and required the awareness at that particular time to temporalize himself in present, past and future day.
His style is calm and unhurried and he mostly wrote short stories and essays. He read through European literature and thought and Japanese literature such as Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) and Ogai Mori (1862-1922). He studied medicine at Sendai medical school in 1904. His first book “A Madman’s Diary” (1918) was colloquially written for the first time in the history of Chinese modern literature.
Old China in the final days of the Qing Dynasties was invaded by imperialistic great-power countries and became a semi-feudalistic society. Therefore the evil spirit called “ma-ma-hu-hu” (human irresponsibility including a fraud) existed in the popular mind unconsciously. Lu Xun disliked the mental illness of “ma-ma-hu-hu” which afflicted Chinese people at the time and he disagreed directly with it.
花村嘉英（2015）「从认知语言学的角度浅析鲁迅作品－魯迅をシナジーで読む」より translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura