Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Wandering (Panghuang)
Lu Xun's 1926 second short-story collection
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Wandering (Panghuang) (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Wandering (Panghuang)
1924-1925 composition, 1926 publication, post-May-Fourth-deflation moment; canonical fixed-point in subsequent Chinese-language pedagogy.
Space
Wandering (Panghuang)
Rural-Zhejiang and small-town Republic-era China refracted through Beijing literary milieu; later read across PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diaspora.
Matter
Wandering (Panghuang)
Xianglin's-wife, the failed-reformer intellectuals, the ritual-sacrifice apparatus that grinds down women, the alcoholic-misanthropic retreat from defeated reform.
Observer
Wandering (Panghuang)
Mid-Lu-Xun — past first-collection hopes, registering the failure of awakening, but not yet at Wild Grass's interior prose-poetic abstraction.
Energy
Wandering (Panghuang)
Cold-clinical, alienated, post-revolutionary-deflation energies; less-polemical than Call to Arms, more pathological in psychological focus.
Information
Wandering (Panghuang)
Eleven short stories; realist-modernist Russian-derived prose; interior-psychological narration; symbolic mise-en-scène (sacrifice ritual, tavern, snow).
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Wandering registers post-May-Fourth disillusionment with peculiar acuteness — the 'iron-house' awakeners have woken and find no exit. The collection is widely regarded as Lu Xun's most mature fiction, and 'The New-Year Sacrifice' as among the great twentieth-century Chinese short stories. Differential reception under PRC canonisation flattened the work into anti-feudal exemplum; Taiwan-and-diaspora reception preserved more of its political ambivalence and modernist literary range.