Lu Xun formed the profound observation and calm thinking about Japan during his g- year＇s stay in Japan. In the course of the New Culture Movement, Lu Xun, as a ＂fire-thief＂, in- troduced the Japanese progressive literary and art into China; and after his comparison of the na- tional character between the Japanese and Chinese, he called on Chinese to learn from Japanese. However, since he gradually accepted the historical materialism and Marx＇s theory of literature and art, and as well as the fact that Japan started the war of aggression ag...
