Wild Grass

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

• ISBN13: 9789629961244
• ISBN10: 9629961245
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Chinese Univ Pr

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 twenty-three prose poems written between 1924 and 1926.

Table of Contents

Introduction	x
David Pollard
WILD GRASS
Foreword	2	(4)
Autumn Night	6	(6)
The Shadow's Leave-Taking	12	(4)
The Beggars	16	(4)
My Lost Love	20	(4)
Revenge	24	(4)
Revenge (II)	28	(4)
Hope	32	(6)
Snow	38	(4)
The Kite	42	(6)
The Good Story	48	(6)
The Passer-By	54	(14)
Dead Fire	68	(6)
The Dog's Retort	74	(2)
The Good Hell That Was Lost	76	(4)
The Epitaph	80	(4)
Tremors of Degradation	84	(6)
On Expressing an Opinion	90	(4)
After Death	94	(10)
Such a Fighter	104	(4)
The Wise Man, the Fool and the Slave	108	(6)
The Blighted Leaf	114	(4)
Amid Pale Bloodstains	118	(4)
The Awakening	122