Lu Xun was born with the name Zhou Zhangshou to an educated, but not wealthy, family. His hometown, Shaoxing, was in a region of China known as Jiangnan. It had long been China's cultural heartland.

Lu Xun (1881-1936) was a Chinese writer, thinker and revolutionary. He was born on September 5, 1881 in Shaoxing in east China's Zhejiang Province. Lu Xun went to Japan in 1902 to study medical ...