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Sunday, January 16, 2011

It's a School Life by Satinder Kaur, Courier Staff Artist
©2011 Satpreet Kaur/Courier Comics

Best Friends Forever by Nataniel Lazaga, Courier Staff Artist
©2011 Nataniel Lazaga/Courier Comics

From wikipedia:
Zhou Zuoren (16 January 1885-6 May 1967) was a Chinese writer, primarily known as an essayist and a translator. He was the younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren), the second of three brothers.

Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, he was educated at the Jiangnan Naval Academy as a teenager. Following the steps of his brother Lu Xun, he left for Japan to pursue his study in 1906. During his stint in Japan, he began studying Ancient Greek, with the aim of translating the Gospels into Classical Chinese, and attended lectures on Chinese philology by scholar-revolutionary Zhang Binglin at Rikkyo University. , although he was supposed to study civil engineering there. He returned to China in 1911, with his Japanese wife, and began to teach in different institutions.

Read Requisites for the New Literature by Zhou Zuoren, translated by Kirk A. Denton, free from Ohio State University.