Diary of a Madman
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"Diary of a Madman" is a landmark 1918 short story by Lu Xun that pioneered modern Chinese vernacular fiction and powerfully critiques feudal society through the paranoid perspective of its mad narrator.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Chinese literary work
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modern Chinese vernacular fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
films
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stage plays ⓘ television productions ⓘ |
| author | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | classic of modern Chinese literature ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cannibalism as social metaphor
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confucian ethics as cannibalistic ⓘ critique of feudal society ⓘ oppression of the individual ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| comparedTo | Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Chinese feudal ethics
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traditional Confucian family system ⓘ |
| firstPublishedAs | Kuangren Riji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | New Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
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social criticism ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Diary of a Madman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFrameNarrative | editor who presents the diary ⓘ |
| hasPinyinTitle | Kuángrén Rìjì NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Lu Xun’s collection Call to Arms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese social realist literature
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later Chinese modernist writers ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modern Chinese literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
landmark of May Fourth literature
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pioneering work of modern Chinese vernacular fiction ⓘ |
| movement |
May Fourth literature
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New Culture Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrator | madman ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| portrays |
breakdown of sanity under social pressure
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collective complicity in oppression ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationToSociety | alienated intellectual ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| setting | a traditional Chinese village ⓘ |
| structure | framed by an editor’s preface ⓘ |
| studiedIn | Chinese literature curricula worldwide ⓘ |
| symbol |
cannibalism
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“Eat people” characters in classical texts ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late Qing and early Republican China ⓘ |
| titleInChineseCharacters | 狂人日记 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
diary form
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vernacular Chinese ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman”