In 1917, Chen Hengzhe published the short story One Day () in an overseas student quarterly ()—a year before the publication of Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman and The True Story of Ah Q (not published until 1921), which has often been incorrectly credited as the first vernacular Chinese fiction.
In 1917, Chen Hengzhe published the short story One Day () in an overseas student quarterly ()—a year before the. publication of Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman and The True Story of Ah Q (not published until 1921), which has often been incorrectly credited as the first vernacular Chinese fiction