Hesitation is a collection of 11 short stories. Wrote by Lu Xun, from 1924 to 1925. Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hs n, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 - 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.