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Flawless new 1974 copy of this green paperback, printed in China. Comes with original questionaire the Chinese publisher wanted Americans to fill out and send back about the book.

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First published January 1,1927

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Published
January 1, 1985 by Foreign Languages Press
ISBN
9780835113144
ASIN
0835113140
Language
English

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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

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MoonChain
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April 26,2025
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"Falando em acessibilidade, a nova editora Aboio passou a disponibilizar de graça os ebooks de todo o seu catálogo —"Luz dos Monstros", do premiado escritor gaúcho Paulo Scott, "Ervas Daninhas", do gigante chinês Lu Xun, e "Ossada Perpétua", da estreante carioca Anna Kuzminska. O argumento é que o ebook como modelo de negócios "não colou no Brasil", segundo o editor Leopoldo Cavalcante, e a tecnologia é mais útil para aproximar leitores e leitoras do trabalho feito pela casa" (Folha de SP)
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14clock3
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April 26,2025
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2018-01-14 20:40:38
中学读过，在暨大北门二手书店买了79年版，原价0.25，购买价8元，在回家的火车上读完。此书是鲁迅的散文集，极强的象征手法，比较难读，总体还是表达出作者对于时代的苦闷与讽刺，对于了解历史与审视现实都还是很好的作品。
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dipz158
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April 26,2025
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Like any good book of poetry, I really don't know what the heck some of these were even about. But they at least all sounded good, though.

At the cusp of change in China, Lu Xun's writings capture the weird, messy feelings of a weird, messy time. Bomber planes flying "like students going to school" and Jesus's bones cracking on the cross, Lu Xun also still finds time to include a little wry humor and hope in between some really depressing, nihilistic, and kinda awesome images.

Some of my favorites:

"The Kite"-- I like a poem that calls out kites as being stupid (and touches on the problems with forgiveness)

"On Expressing an Opinion"--I'm glad to see early 20th century China also recognized how dumb it is when people fish for compliments on their unremarkable babies.

"The Wiseman, the Fool, and the Slave"--'No good deed goes unpunished' is really timeless, ain't it?

"Revenge (II)" -- A really interesting take on the crucifixion of Jesus story. They didn't just execute 'Jesus;' that was a man they killed in a really cruel way.

Some poems were quite a bit head-scratching ("Dead Fire" has an amazing but tremendously bummer ending). But I enjoyed it all, and will probably chew on Wild Grass for a while longer.
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mumukuku12
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April 26,2025
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鲁迅的风格还是属于那种文艺类型，对于目前的我来说，只能说不是很喜欢这样的。所以三星吧。
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danicatalyst
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April 26,2025
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Feliz e finalmente cadastrada essa edição super elegante. Bilíngue, foi traduzido por
Calebe Guerra e publicada pela Editora Aboio sob o título "Ervas Daninhas". Um primor.
Com um tipo diferente de escrita dos demais textos de Lu Xun que tive contato, mais experimental, arisco até, mas igualmente profundo e melancólico, o verdadeiro retrato de um coração pesado.
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treeshrew
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dreams and nightmares of vibrant flowers and static violence; life right next to death.
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Pelouch
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Something wonderful, terse, magnetic and lucid about his writing. Some of the stories are shorter than a page. Slight surrealist feeling to the works. It’s always interesting to see how one language is translated into another (side-by-side English – Chinese). The Chinese, in this case, had a lot more bite to it. I would’ve loved to have been able to finish the book. A book to savoured slowly, story by story, not to be read through in one or two sittings.
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