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The Social Theater is a short story written in 1922 by Lu Xun, a modern writer, published in Novel Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 12, in December of the same year, and later included in the collection of novels called Scream.

The novel is based on the author's life experience as a teenager, and he writes in the first person about his experience of going to the theater three times in the past 20 years: twice in Beijing after the Xinhai Revolution, and once when he was a teenager in the countryside of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, to see a community theater. The author portrays the image of a group of teenage friends from farming families with deep feelings, showing the good virtues of working people's simplicity, kindness, friendship and selflessness, and expressing the author's nostalgia for the life of his teenage years, and especially his nostalgia for the sincere friendship of his friends from the farming families.

Background:

The October Revolution gave a strong shock to Lu Xun, who was contemplating and exploring, and made him see the "dawn of the new century" and the hope of the people's revolution. "The outbreak of the May Fourth Patriotic Movement invigorated Lu Xun's revolutionary spirit, so he used his pen to mercilessly expose the cannibalistic nature of the feudal system and the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, and issued a call to "save the children" and overthrow the feudal "iron house". The first is the "Iron House", which is the most important of all the "Iron House".

From then on, he was "unstoppable", throwing daggers and machine guns at the enemy one after another with a thorough anti-feudal ideology, showing a distinctive revolutionary stance. It is in this context that the novel "Social Theater" was published.