
Ep 11 - Lu Xun and Weeds with Matt Turner
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The May 4th New Culture Movement
In China, the May 4th movement broadly, including the politics around it, are I would say has been possibly done to death. The great writers and those of them who are still alive, I hope they received some money from their popularity. But it's, it absolutely overshadows in a fourth movement or literature. And so you feel that really eating away at you and you start to feel guilty. So this is, you know, I've always wanted to learn Cantonese, but this is why I'll never learned Cantonese. Yeah. It's got more tones than Mandarin, doesn't it?Yeah, it's written slightly differently in some cases too. So it
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