After the 1919 May Fourth Movement, Lu Xun's writing began to exert a substantial influence on Chinese literature and popular culture. He was primarily a leftist and liberal and was highly acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded. Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's writing
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After the 1919 May Fourth Movement, Lu Xun's writing began to exert a substantial influence on Chinese literature and popular culture. He was primarily a leftist and liberal and was highly acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded. Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's writing
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