Selected Stories of Lu Hsun By Lu Hsun 英文版鲁迅全集.doc

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun By Lu Hsun ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? [The True Story of Ah Q,and Other Stories(written 1918-1926)] Translated byYang Hsien-yiand Gladys Yang Published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1960, 1972Printed in the People's Republic of China Contents [Note from dust jacket] Preface to "Call to Arms" [1922] A Madman's Diary Kung I-chi Medicine Tomorrow An Incident Storm in a Teacup My Old Home The True Story of Ah Q Village Opera The New Year's Sacrifice In the Wine Shop A Happy Family Soap The Misanthrope Regret for the Past The Divorce The Flight to the Moon Forging the Swords LU HSUN (1881-1936), chief commander of China's modern cultural revolution, was not only a great thinker and political commentator but the founder of modern Chinese literature. As early as in the May 1918 issue of the magazine New Youth, Lu Hsun published one of his best stories, A Madman's Diary. This was his "declaration of war" against China's feudal society, and the first short story in the history of modern Chinese literature. Thereafter he followed up with a succession of stories such as The True Story of Ah Q and The New Year's Sacrifice, which cut through and sharply attacked stark reality in the dark old society. These stories were later included in the three volumes Call to Arms, Wandering and Old Tales Retold, and have become treasures in the Chinese people's literary heritage. In his early life Lu Hsun was a revolutionary democrat, who later matured into a communist. His earlier works were mainly stories, 18 of the more important of which, plus the preface to Call to Arms, his first short story collection, have been selected for this volume. The stories show clearly his method in this period of creative writing, thoroughgoing critical realism, a method closely related to the outright anti-imperialist and anti-feudal views which he formed in his early days. In his preface to Call to Arms, the author tells his motive in choosing