The acclaimed translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literature Lu Xun is one of the founding figures of modern Chiense literature. In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Xun, Lu

United States

Penguin Classics

Text: English, Chinese (translation)

The Complete Stories of Lu Xun (English and Chinese Edition)

Indiana Univ. Pr

Poetry. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. Translated by Matt Turner. Introduction by Nick Admussen. Edited by David Perry. In this new translation of a modernist master's most challenging and experimental writing--the first in nearly half a century--Matt Turner brings urgent life to Lu Xun's darkly surrealistic prose poems, fractured shards of memoir, and jagged-edged critique of a 1920s China shaken by existential doubt, political violence, and a literary revolution that reverberates to this day. Featuring an embossed cover and woodblock prints by Monika Lin, an introduction by Nick Admussen, and notes on the poems' historical and cultural backgrounds and on Lu Xun's role in the history of China's modernist woodblock print movement. Forrest Gander writes that "it would take a poet-translator as deft, daring, and refractory as Matt Turner to take on the sarcasm, playfulness, mystery, and aggressive invention of these poems in Chinese," and Yunte Huang writes that, "like a magnanimous host making room for a persnickety guest, Turner's English is a generous accommodation for the pique, pout, and poetics of the wild and protean imagination of a Chinese master."

Weeds

Poetry

Seaweed Salad Editions

No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket shows some staining. Dust jacket is in mylar. Edges are foxed. Dust Jacket is Unclipped. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 389pp. Hardcover Very Good Condition Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" English Text

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Univ of Hawaii Pr

Wandering

Foreign languages

Lu Xun's poems combine revolutionary political content with subtle artistry.  Employing metaphor, symbolism and satire, Lu Xun's poems make a strong impact on their readers. Not many of Lu Xun's poems survive.  The forty-seven in this selection  include the majority of them. His later pieces in particular exposed the role of imperialism and the Chiang Kai-Shek government, expressed sympathy for the sufferings of the masses and praised the revolutionary cause of the proletariat.  They bear the imprint of the stirring years of the 1920s and 1930s and reveal the course of this intellectual development in those years.

Lu Xun: Selected Poems

Univ Pr of the Pacific

The author of these seven short stories, set in China in the 1920s, is regarded as the founder of contemporary Chinese literature. These stories challenge the imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism of the day and provide an insight into the culture of pre-Communist China.

Chinese Classic Stories

Children's Books

Penton Overseas+inc

Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is an essential read for the intermediate and advanced student of Chinese. The Real Story of Ah Q is set in the Republican Revolution of 1911 and is one of Lu Xun's best works. Due to its complex writing system, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Full literacy of Chinese requires a working knowledge of three to four thousand Chinese characters and breaking into reading Chinese literature is a daunting task. Capturing Chinese: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah Q presents one of the best works of modern Chinese literature as a comprehensive tool to help students of Chinese read Chinese literature in its original form. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There is no need to constantly consult a dictionary or to look up difficult characters by radical. Historical events, people, and places are explained throughout and illustrations recreate the scenes. The text used in this book is in simplified characters. * Full story unabridged in simplified Chinese  * Pinyin for the entire text  * Definitions for difficult vocabulary  * Historical explanations and summaries  * Illustrations throughout  * Free MP3s read by two native speakers Free audio files of Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah Q are also included with the purchase of this book and are available for download from the publisher's website. The audio files include both a woman and male speaker.

Capturing Chinese: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah Q (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

World Literature

Capturing Chinese Publications

After Ah Q had kowtowed and complied with the Chao family's terms, he went back as usual to the Tutelary God's Temple. The sun had gone down, and he began to feel that something was wrong. Careful thought led him to the conclusion that this was probably because his back was bare. Remembering that he still had a ragged lined jacket, he put it on and lay down, and when he opened his eyes again the sun was already shining on the top of the west wall. He sat up, saying, "Curse it. . . ."

The True Story Of Ah Q

Literary

Kessinger Pub Co

This English and Chinese bilingual edition of a "A Madman's Diary" was first published in 1918 by Lu Xun, one of the greatest writers in 20th-century Chinese literature. This short story is one of the first and most influential modern works written in vernacular Chinese and would become a cornerstone of the New Culture Movement. The story was often referred to as "China's first modern short story". This book is selected as one of The 100 Best Books of All Time. The diary form was inspired by Nikolai Gogol's short story "Diary of a Madman, " as was the idea of the madman who sees reality more clearly than those around him. The "madman" sees "cannibalism" both in his family and the village around him, and he then finds cannibalism in the Confucian classics which had long been credited with a humanistic concern for the mutual obligations of society, and thus for the superiority of Confucian civilization. The story was read as an ironic attack on traditional Chinese culture and a call for a New Culture.

A Madman's Diary: English and Chinese Bilingual Edition

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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