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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) — A Sino-Russian cultural exchange event, “Dialogue Between Masters – Lu Xun and Maxim Gorky,” was held in Qiantang District of Hangzhou City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Thursday. Descendants of the two brilliant literary figures, experts and scholars from China and Russia, as well as teachers and students from primary and middle schools in Hangzhou gathered to promote cultural exchanges through poetry and fiction readings, the Zhejiang Daily reported.
Zhou Lingfei, Lu Xun’s eldest grandson and also the chairman of the Lu Xun Cultural Foundation, said that Lu Xun’s critical spirit is like a scalpel that dissects both others and himself. And the works of M. Gorky are like a beacon that has played an important role in the development and cultural renewal of China.
“Young people need to have reasonable doubts and to look for different ways to achieve scientific and technological innovation. All this is connected with the spirit of criticism,” he added.
Timofey Peshkov, great-great-grandson of M. Gorky and executive director of the M. Gorky Foundation, in turn expressed hope that in the future, Lu Xun’s descendants will be invited to give lectures in Moscow to strengthen cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Let us recall that 2024-2025 have been declared the Years of China-Russia Culture, and this year’s international exchange event “Dialogue between Masters: Lu Xun and Famous World Writers” is being held for the twelfth time.
It was organized by Hangzhou High School, where the author once worked. The current dialogue is also part of an important poetry education project in Zhejiang Province. -0-