Wild Grass

by Xun, Lu; Xianyi, Yang; Yang, Gladys

• ISBN13: 9787119026947
• ISBN10: 7119026941
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-30
• Publisher: Sinomedia Intl Group

Summary

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain as powerful today as when first written. Echoes of these stories are audible in fiction from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.Like many Chinese intellectuals searching for a solution to China's problems, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, which he later abandoned for a career in writing. As a writer he hoped to be a far more effective weapon in the effort to save China. A prolific author of pungent and "dagger-like" essays, Lu Xun was also a tireless translator of Western critical and literary works. Wild Grass is a collection of 23 prose poems written between 1924 and 1926.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Foreword	p. 2
Autumn Night	p. 6
The Shadow's Leave-Taking	p. 12
The Beggars	p. 16
My Lost Love	p. 20
Revenge	p. 24
Revenge (II)	p. 28
Hope	p. 32
Snow	p. 38
The Kite	p. 42
The Good Story	p. 48
The Passer-By	p. 54
Dead Fire	p. 68
The Dog's Retort	p. 74
The Good Hell That Was Lost	p. 76
The Epitaph	p. 80
Tremors of Degradation	p. 84
On Expressing an Opinion	p. 90
After Death	p. 94
Such a Fighter	p. 104
The Wise Man, the Fool and the Slave	p. 108
The Blighted Leaf	p. 114
Amid Pale Bloodstains	p. 118
The Awakening	p. 122
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