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With its condemnation of existing literature Lu Xun’s debut short story “A Madman’s Diary” (『狂人日記』), with its condemnation of the social backwardness of early Republican China, has long been recognized as a classic work of political literature. By analyzing the story, and traditional China, within a game theoretical framework, we see just how difficult it is to escape from a society in which backward traditional values predominate; in fact, we find that such a society is evolutionarily stable. Continue reading →