Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.104

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students chose Lu Xun’s works as the subject of their thesis. For example, Prof. Manik Bhattacharya in Jawaharlal Nehru University, a sinologist and expert in Lu Xun in India, did his doctoral thesis on *The Creative Process and Revolutionary Discourse in Lu Xun’s Writings* (1997). He translated Lu Xun’s short story Kong Yiji (1978) and essay *On Cultural Bias* (2004) into Bengali and English, and published papers on Lu Xun such as *Ah Q and the Question of National Identity* (1991), and *The Lofty Height of A Writer: My Evaluation of Lu Xun* (1998). He called Lu Xun’s pathological fiction, and identified its role in analising China’s social problems. In addition, sinologist Priyadarsi Mukherji in India translated *Poems of Lu Xun* (1991) into Bengali, which includes 45 of Lu Xun’s poems with annotations. Some scholars have also made studies of famous writers and poets of different schools in the New Literature Movement in China, such as Mao Dun, Ba Jin and Zang Kejia. For example in the Landmark Developments in Chinese Poetry (2004), Huang I-Shu, the Indian scholar of Chinese origin points that the once popular poet Zang Kejia’s work has lost its charm nowadays, which marks the dilemma faced by modern Chinese poetry, and the unpopularity of slogan-type poetry among readers.