Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t2.6

v2.c10.s2.t2.6

After returning home from Japan, Lu Xun taught in Hangzhou High School and Shaoxing High School. During this period, he went through a phase of extreme depression and mental turmoil. The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 gave his feelings a temporary sense of excitement but subsequent events made him realise that the Revolution had neither changed China’s stagnating reality nor its social chaos. These events, compounded with national disasters and problems in his marriage, led Lu Xun to extreme depression. After the May Fourth Movement, his pent up thoughts and emotions burst forth like lava through the eruption of his literary writings. At this time he was working for the Ministry of Education and had moved to Beijing.