The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
‘The most hated man in the village had been beaten to death . . . and some of the villagers had dug out his heart and liver, then fried and eaten them, for courage’
Lu Xun (1881-1936) is one of the founding figures of modern Chinese literature. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty and complacence 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, including ‘The Real Story of Ah-Q’, ‘Diary of a Madman’, ‘The Divorce’ and ‘New Year’s Sacrifice’, among others.
Julia Lovell’s major new translation of Lu Xun’s short stories is accompanied by an introduction to the writer’s political and literary life. This edition also includes suggested further reading, a note on Chinese names and pronunciation, a chronology and notes.
Translated with an Introduction by JULIA LOVELL
With an Afterword by YIYUN LI
Contents
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
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The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics 2010)
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