Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered At Dusk

Lu Xun was China's greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun's essays and experimental writings little known to English readers-works of profound imagination that seek to find beauty and meaning in an unjust world.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lu Xun (1881–1936), born Zhou Shuren, was a writer of fiction, essayist, poet, translator, and literary critic.Eileen J. Cheng is Professor of Chinese at Pomona College. She is author of Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun’s Refusal to Mourn and coeditor of Jottings under Lamplight, a collection of Lu Xun’s essays.Theodore Huters is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Chief Editor of Renditions, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s translation journal. He is author of Bringing the World Home: Appropriations of the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, editor of China’s New Order, and coeditor of Revolutionary Literature in China.

Zusammenfassung

Lu Xun was China’s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun’s essays and experimental writings little known to English readers—works of profound imagination that seek to find beauty and meaning in an unjust world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Susan Engel, Xun Lu, Lu Xun
• Mitarbeit: Theodore Huters (Herausgeber), Huters Theodore (Herausgeber), Eileen J. Cheng (Übersetzung), Cheng Eileen J. (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780674261167
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26116-7
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literature: history and criticism, FICTION / World Literature / Asia (General), FICTION / World Literature / China / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary