内容简介
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.
作者简介:
Lu Xun (1881-1936) studied to be a doctor before turning to writing as the self-appointed literary physician of China's spiritual ills. After his death, he was called "the saint of modern China" by Mao Zedong, who commandeered him in service of the Cultural Revolution.
目录
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Translation
A Note on Chinese Names and Pronunciation
Nostalgia
OUTCRY
Preface
Diary of a Madman
Kong Yiji
Medicine
Tomorrow
A Minor Incident
Hair
A Passing Storm
My Old Home
The Real Story of Ah-Q
Dragon Boat Festival
The White Light
A Cat among the Rabbits
A Comedy of Ducks
Village Opera
HESITATION
New Year's Sacrifice
Upstairs in the Tavern
A Happy Family
Soap
The Lamp of Eternity
A Public Example
Our Learned Friend
The Loner
In Memoriam
Brothers
The Divorce
OLD STORIES RETOLD
Preface
Mending Heaven
Flight to the Moon
Taming the Floods
Gathering Ferns
Forging the Swords
Leaving the Pass
Anti-Aggression
Bringing Back the Dead
Notes
Afterword