<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun#Late_career">Lu Xun</a> (鲁迅) [pinyin]lu3 xun4[/pinyin]  was one of China's great 20th century writers and thinkers who felt that the heart and soul of the Chinese people had been sickened by the depravity and corruption that ran rampant after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.