"Some of these stories, I am sure, will be read as long as the Chinese language exists."―Ha Jin"When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from memory."―Lu Hsun Living during a time of dramatic change in China, Lu Hsun had a career that was as varied as his writing. As a young man he studied medicine in Japan but left it for the life of an activist intellectual, eventually returning to China to teach. Though he supported the aims of the Communist revolution, he did not become a member of the party nor did he live to see the Communists take control of China. Ambitious to reach a large Chinese audience, Lu Hsun wrote his first published story, "A Madman's Diary," in the vernacular, a pioneering move in Chinese literature at the time. "The True Story of Ah Q," a biting portrait of feudal China, gained him popularity in the West. This collection of eighteen stories shows the variety of his style and subjects throughout his career. In a new introduction, Ha Jin, the author of Waiting (National Book Award winner), The Bridegroom, and other works, places Lu Hsun's life and work in the context of Chinese history and literature.

Selected Stories (The Norton Library ; N848)

Literature & Fiction

Hsun, Lu.

Literary

W.W.Norton&Company

An advanced reader in modern Chinese, giving a text in a modern written Chinese, reproduced photographically from an original Chinese edition, together with an introduction, bibliography and notes on difficult points of language and allusions to the cultural and historical context. Lu Hsün (1881-1936) was important both politically and from the literary standpoint. He crystallized in his writings the vague aspirations of the generation of progressive young Chinese in the first cultural revolution of the 1920s; and he was a pioneers in the formulation of a new literary style which broke away from the sacrosanct formulae of classical Chinese. This reader gives three of his short stories. Mr Kratochvil's English introduction comments generally on the difficulties facing Chinese writers who wished to find a style related more closely to spoken Chinese, and then considers the three stories here reproduced.

Three Stories (Readers in Modern Chinese)

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

A collection of English translations of major stories of the Chinese author Lu Xun.
When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from my memory.

Selected Stories Of Lu Hsun

Contemporary

Wildside Pr

A collection of English translations of major stories of the Chinese author Lu Xun.
When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from my memory. . . .

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

This classic treatise on Chinese literature was originally published in English in 1959. Its author is Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the most critically and culturally significant literary figures in 20th century China, and figurehead of China's New Culture movement. This book originated from Lu Xun's own lectures on the historical development of Chinese fiction from early myths and legends to the finely-honed epic novels of eighteenth and nineteenth century China. This remarkable book is therefore one of the first systematic studies of the history of Chinese fiction by a Chinese writer. A core text on Chinese literature, it still commands great influence among Chinese and Western scholars even today. Translated from the Chinese by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. With a new Foreword (2014) by Professor Moss Roberts, New York University.

China Books

Lu Hsun (1881-1936), chief commander of China's modern cultural revolution, was not only a great thinker and political commentator but the founder of modern Chinese literature.  As early as in the May 1918 issue of the magazine New Youth, Lu Hsun published one of his best stories, A Madman's Diary. This ws his "declaration of war" against China's feudal society, and the first short story in the history of modern Chinese literature.  Thereafter he followed up with a succession of stories such as The True Story of Ah Q and The New Year's Sacrifice, which cut through and sharply attacked stark reality in the dark old society. These stories were later include in the three columns Call to Arms, Wandering and Old Tales Retold, and have become treasures in the Chinese people's literary heritage.  In his early life Lu Hsun was a revolutionary democrat, who later matured into a communist.  His earlier works were mainly stories, 18 of the more important of which, plus the preface to Call to Arms, his first short story collection, have been selected for this book.  The stories show clearly his method in this period of creative writing, thoroughgoing critical realism, a method closely related to the outright anti-imperialist and anti-feudal views which he formed in his ear days.  In his preface to Call to Arms, the author tells his motive in choosing literature as a weapon of struggle.  This will give readers a deeper understanding of Lu Hsun's stories.

China Books & Periodicals

Good paperback. Text contains some underlining/marking. Covers show light wear. Previous owner's name on end paper.

Selected Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated

When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from my memory. . . .

History

Asia

Foreign Languages Press

Cheng Tsui Co.

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Selected Stories (The Norton Library ; N848)

Three Stories (Readers in Modern Chinese)

Selected Stories Of Lu Hsun

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

Selected Stories

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun