A Study On Censorship Of Lu Xun’s Essays In Republican China

This thesis studies Lu Xun’s essay from the perspective of published works aiming at conducting a comprehensive research about Lu Xun’s essay’s censorship during the period of the Republic of China. It is a significant and basic research which can provide some basic information and inspiration of Lu Xun Study for the future research. At the same time,it is helpful for restoring the harsh living environment for writers’ works’as well as for the research about the banned writers and their works.This thesis consists of four parts. The introduction part expounds the significance of the thesis, domestic and foreign research status as well as the research method adopted in this paper. The first chapter introduces the policy of literature and art and its censorship of Lu Xun’s essays during the period of the Republic of China in the period ruled by the northern warlords and the Kuomintang. The writer mainly focuses on the period ruled by Kuomintang. The second chapter mainly embarks from the agencies which banned essays written by Lu Xun, including the central book review committee, and materials, including public security bureau of Hangzhou, Shanghai special members of the executive committee of the local censorship system. Then the writer summarizes the times of Lu Xun being suppressed. Combined with the banned reasons given by Kuomintang officially, the fourth chapter analyzes the specific content of concrete single essay and the banned reasons of the essay is divided into shallow mediocrity, deception, undermines the authorities, denigrate the Kuomintang, ordinary consciousness, promote the proletariat, breaking the "third person". After analyzing Lu Xun’s inner feelings when his essay was banned, the thesis summarizes the changes Lu Xun taken, such as changing published positions, using a distortion of the facts, change pen names, supporting piraled books.