The True Story of Ah Q
A day labourer at Weizhuang with no surname, no home but the village temple and no clear idea of his own age turns every beating into a victory by revising it afterwards in his head. Turned down for a wife, run out of work and back again, he hears that revolution has reached the county town and concludes that he was always a revolutionary. Serialised under a pen name in a Beijing supplement, it handed China a word for its own self-deception that is still in use.
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