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Old Tales Retold — 魯迅 Lu Xun, 1922–1935

Lu Xun's last fiction collection — eight myths and histories retold deadpan: Nüwa patching the sky, Yi shooting down the suns, Yu taming the flood, Zhuangzi arguing with a skeleton he just revived.

66% of words ≤ HSK 422% off-list words
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  1. 1序言
  2. 2補天
  3. 3奔月
  4. 4理水
  5. 5采薇
  6. 6鑄劍
  7. 7出關
  8. 8非攻
  9. 9起死

Author 魯迅 (Lu Xun) died in 1936: public domain in China (life + 50 years) and in the United States (author died before 1946, so copyright was never restored under the URAA). Source: zh.wikisource.org.