The friendship between Lu Xun and a Japanese bookstore owner in Shanghai.
This book examined the close friendship between the most famous Chinese intellectual of the 20th century and Uchiyama Kanzo, who owns a bookstore in Shanghai.
Lu Xun spent the last decade of his life in Shanghai. Arriving in 1927, he befriended Kanzo.
This 59-page short book examines their unlikely friendship and the intellectual world of Shanghai on the eve of war.
The author is Joshua A. Fogel (born 1950). He is an American-Canadian who is described as a Sinologist. I wonder why, as his expertise is in the cultural and political relations between China and Japan. Shouldn’t he also be called a Japanologist?