You can start reading ahead. Please make sure you have access to both the “Analects” excerpts and Lu Xun’s short story, Diary of a Madman. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Bring these to class for discussion.

Discuss your thoughts/reactions to Lu Xun’s short story. What seems to be the underlying cause of madness for the narrator? How do you interpret the “end” of this narrator’s account, that he seems to have recovered from insanity?