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Throughout the entire story Ah Q is constantly belittling women and his encounter with the nun in the story proves this. "All nuns must carry on in secret with monks. If a woman walks alone on the street, she must want to seduce bad men." (Lu Hsun, 82) At this point in time, Lu Hsun was one who rejected the common belief that women were inferior to men and should stand in their shadows...
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In his novel he comments on the thought that held men back and distracted them from what they could accomplish. "The majority of Chinese men could become saints and sages were it not for the unfortunate fact that they are ruined by women." (Lu Hsun, 90) In Spence's The Gate of Heavenly Peace, he quotes an article written by Lu Hsun published in the New Youth magazine in 1918, thirteen years before The True Story of Ah Q was published...
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