MCLC: Lu Xun letter sold for more than 1 million (1)

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Costas Kouremenos <enaskitis at gmail.com>
Subject: Lu Xun letter sold for more than 1 million (1)
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"Song Hao, a senior manager in the rare books department of China
Guardian, said in a telephone interview (...): And its contents are good.
His advice on learning Japanese is of use today for people learning
foreign languages."

A venomous remark, considering that Lu Xun said in his letter:

<And then there are no great works to make the labor of foreign readers
Worthwhile.

The time and effort needed to learn Japanese to the point that you can
read a novel ‹ and not just half-understand it ­would be no less, I think,
than to master a European language. And there are great European works.
Why don¹t you, sir, use the energy that would be spent learning Japanese
to learn a Western language instead?>

Costas