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Lusin Part Two

© David Poulson

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Of course, earning a living as a writer is never easy and it certainly wasn't in China at that time. After Lusin returned to China (not until 1909, by the way) he worked as a teacher of physiology until after the 1911 revolution. In 1912 Cai Yuanpei (Tsai Yuan-Pei), about whom we have already learned a lot, invited him to travel to Nanking in work in the new Ministry of Education, formed by the Republican Government. Lusin was a very hard working writer, and all of his life he managed to fulfil other roles, principally teaching, and participate in progressive political activity, while at the same time as producing an uninterrupted flow of novels, stories and articles. This diminutive and frail figure was energetic and determined.

They didn't stay in Nanking long and later in that same year they moved to Peking where, as I have already mentioned, Cai Yianpei eventually became the Rector of Peking University. He was also one of the founders of the short-lived Peking Esperanto College which only functioned for two years. But while it was operational, Lusin taught classes there - not in Esperanto, of course.

Lusin also lectured at Peking University and his university career continued when he moved south to Canton in 1926 and took up the position of Dean of the Faculty of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Sun Yat-Sen.

Between 1912 and 1926, however, Lusin wrote many novels, stories and articles, as well as lecturing and teaching, and in 1927 he moved to Shanghai as the editor of two literary periodicals. In addition to his literary output, Lusin was notable during his lifetime as a committed progressive thinker and activist. In 1930, he was one of the founders of the Union of Left-Wing Writers, and then the next year, with Sun Yat-Sen's wife, he organised the Chinese Union for the Protection of Human Rights. And of course he provided moral and financial assistance to the Esperanto movement in Shanghai and its journal, La MOndo