Talk:The True Story of Ah Q
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[edit] Q
Why is he named Q? It is not a Chinese word. --Error 00:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) Accordin' to the story, the 'author' failed to recall what exactly character is his name, so he used an acronym of 'Quei'(pinyin gui), so Q.
Some have argue that the Q resembles a typical man's head of Qing Dynasty as men are required to wear a long tail of hair by the emperor.
[edit] Are the interpretations of the novel taken from a critical source?
Are they?
I have modified the part called "observation of China". There are previously quite a few grammar and spelling mistakes so I corrected them and add a couple of stuff. I have not add further interpretation. I noticed someone asks about the critical source problem. I think it is a fair interpretation based on common interpretation of Lu Xun's works. Plus I have not personally read any other significantly different interpretation to this novel, if there is any. The socio-econ approach sounds very fair to me.
Also, there is a whole lot of Lu Xun's own accounts to this piece of work. Many of them are inculded in Lu Xun Quan Ji, which is the Complete Selection of Lu Xun's Works. I do not currently have access to the book but if someone does I suggest taking reference from it. I am pretty positive that everything in the observation part can find adequate reference from Lu Xun himself, and the page would look awesome.
