Lu Hsun and Sherwood Anderson: Background, Theme, and Style

Most people may feel it a surprise to putSherwood Anderson (1876--1941), an Ameri-can writer, on a par with Lu Hsun (1881-1936), a Chinese writer. True, at first glance,the possibility that they could be mentioned inthe same breath is unlikely and incredible:they lived in different countries on differentcontinents; they received different education,and underwent different experiences as de-scendants of different races. But a close studyof their short stories will lead to a