Wild Grass 野草

lu xun gladys yang yang xianyi 魯迅 楊憲益

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.

Genres chinapoetrychinese literatureliteratureclassicsfictionshort storiesasia

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1927

This edition

Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Published: October 1, 2003 by Chinese University Press 香港中文大學
ISBN: 9789629961244
ASIN: 9629961245
Language: Multiple languages

About the author

lu xun

Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

For the Traditional Chinese profile: here.
For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅