The Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun collects together his most influential and powerful essays and lectures. Critical of traditional Chinese culture, of the superstition and rigid social mores, and passionate in his argument for reform, his essays from the classic contemplation on Confusion patriarchy âWhat Is Required of Us as Fathers Today,â to his critique of Chinese identity politics âMy Mustacheâ are exemplary of Chinese thought, society, and politics in a transitional historic period.