Time line
Updated: 2011-09-23 07:49
(China Daily)
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1881
Zhou Shuren was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province.
1898
Left home to study at Jiangnan Naval Academy in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
1899
Transferred to the School of Mines and Railways in Nanjing.
1902
Graduated and left China for Japan on a government scholarship and began to study Japanese.
1904
Left Tokyo for medical school in rural Sendai.
1906
Abandoned medical studies and returned to Shaoxing for an arranged marriage, but soon returned to Tokyo with his brother Zhou Zuoren.
1909
Returned to China and began to teach physiology and chemistry in Hangzhou, Zhe-jiang province.
1911
Wrote his first short story, Nostalgia.
1912
Left Hangzhou to take up a job in the Ministry of Education in Nanjing, and then in Beijing, where he absorbed himself in antiquarian research.
1918
Published his first vernacular short story Diary of a Madman under the pseudonym Lu Xun.
1922
Completed his first short story collection Outcry
1925
Began a love affair with Xu Guangping, his former student.
1926
Left Beijing with Xu Guangping to take up teaching posts in Xiamen and Guangzhou respectively.
1927
Moved to Shanghai.
1929
Xu Guangping gave birth to their only son, Zhou Haiying.
1936
Died of tuberculosis in Shanghai.
(China Daily 09/23/2011 page19)