In the presence of history, what matters most is not knowledge, but honesty. The attitude toward history should be that of being responsible for history alone, and all ideological biases should take a back seat.
In the official history and textbooks of the mainland, Lu Xun is presented as the “soul of the nation” and the flag bearer of Culture. But the real truth is a shock to many people, because Lu Xun was an uncompromising traitor.
Lu Xun’s own brother Zhou Zuoren himself said that when Lu Xun studied at the Sendai Medical College in Japan, his poor grades were the main reason for “abandoning Medicine for literature”, with 83 points in his best ethics, and only 60 points in the rest of German, physics and chemistry. Some researchers say that the history of Lu Xun’s stay in Tokyo from 1906 to 1909 is very questionable. He had no career and no Family support, but he lived a rich and leisurely Life in Tokyo, hired Japanese maids, and sponsored his second brother to study abroad. Where did the funds come from? It is speculated that The Japanese Special Branch paid his salary and spied on the movement of foreign students. He did not leave Tokyo until the Special Branch sent him to China on another mission. When the war broke out on January 28, he went into hiding at the Uchiyama Bookstore, a liaison station of the Special Branch in Shanghai.
Anyone who attended elementary school on the mainland knows that Lu Xun had close relations with a Japanese “friend”. This friend was called Uchiyama Fenzo, who owned the Uchiyama Bookstore in Shanghai. He used the bookstore as a cover to collect information for Japan and to buy and recruit traitors. Lu’s “Postscript” to his “Book of False Freedom” mentions that he was fully aware that Uchiyama was a Japanese spy. Lu Xun himself made no secret of his deep “friendship” with Uchiyama.
An article in the May 1934 Shanghai Social News said that Lu and Uchiyama had a close relationship and were “happy to be traitors. After the Japanese invasion of Shanghai and Nanking, Uchiyama took charge of the Commercial Press. After the Japanese surrender, he became the head of hundreds of thousands of Japanese expatriates in Shanghai, which can prove that Uchiyama was a very background Japanese spy.
Of course, Lu Xun cannot be identified as a traitor simply because of his unknown financial sources in Japan and his close relationship with Japanese spies. Because Lu Xun perfectly interpreted the exact position of a traitor with his own words and actions.
In order to repay his Japanese masters, Lu Xun strongly supported anything that was beneficial to Japan. Whatever was good for China, Lu Xun was strongly opposed.
In 1915, while the European powers were busy with the First World War, Japan forced Yuan Shikai’s government to sign the Twenty-one Articles, which we all knew was tantamount to selling out the country. Yuan Shikai was well aware of the advantages and disadvantages, and the responsibility of selling out the country could not be borne by him alone, so he asked the government civil servants to sign collectively, and those who did not sign had to resign. Many years later, Lu Xun’s polemic opponent, Chen Yuan (Chen Xiying), said mockingly, “Lu Xun loved his country? He loved Japan, didn’t he? He loves Japan, doesn’t he?”.
In order to cooperate with the Japanese propaganda of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Lu Xun wrote a lot of articles attacking the government, denigrating China, and propagating the theory of the fall of the country. Under Lu Xun’s pen, Chinese culture was equivalent to garbage, and Chinese books only harmed and killed people! Chinese youths were killed by the Japanese at every turn, not because the Japanese were cruel and brutal, but because we were not serious! Our water is not as gentle as Japan’s. In short, China is inferior to Japan in everything! Lu Xun believed that the Japanese were destined to conquer China like the Mongols.
Lu Xun not only served Japan with his pen, but also directly cooperated with Japanese intelligence officials in using counter-strategies. Lu Xun was a thief who falsely accused Chen Qichang of taking Japanese funds and wanted to use the National Government’s knife to kill people for Japan in order to get rid of this anti-Japanese aspirant for the purpose. Chen Qichang insisted on the underground resistance in Shanghai was arrested by the Japanese and put into a sack and stabbed to death and thrown into the sea from the Wusong Pass.
Lu Xun also scolded those celebrities who refused to accept the doctrine of the death of the country and insisted on anti-Japanese salvation, and those he scolded were all true patriots. They were all true patriots, such as Zhang Shizhao, Yang Yinyu, Hu Shih, Liang Shiqiu, Lin Yutang, Xu Zhimo, Chen Yuan, Li Siguang, and so on. They are the true patriots, the backbone of our nation. But Lu Xun was always using words like “dog”, “barking dog”, “walking dog”, “falling dog” to insult them.
Lu Xun’s death exposed his identity as a traitor. 36 years Lu Xun was seriously ill and had been treated by Dr. Sudo arranged by Uchiyama Wenzo. The Japanese took such great pains with Lu Xun. Before his death, on October 17, Lu Xun visited Kajikan and Uchiyama, but he became critically ill the next day and died on the third day.
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