Lu Xun: Selected Works

Volume One Editor's Note 7 Lu Xun: His Life and Works, by Feng Xuefeng 9 Stories Preface to Call to Arms 33 A Madman's Diary 39 Kong Yiji 52 Medicine 58 Tomorrow 68 A Small Incident 76 Storm in a Teacup 79 My Old Home 90 The True Story of Ah Q 102 Village Opera 155 The New-Year Sacrifice 168 In the Tavern 189 A Happy Family 202 Soap 211 The Misanthrope 225 Regret for the Past 249 The Divorce 272 The Flight to the Moon 283 Forging the Swords 296 Prose Poems Autumn Night 317 The Shadow's Leave-taking 320 The Beggars 322 Revenge (II) 324 Hope 326 Snow 328 The Kite 330 The Good Story 333 The Passer-by 336 Dead Fire 342 The Dog's Retort 345 The Good Hell That Was Lost 346 On Expressing an Opinion 348 After Death 349 Such a Fighter 354 The Wise Man, The Fool and The Slave 356 The Blighted Leaf 359 Amid Pale Bloodstains 361 The Awakening 363 Reminiscences Achang and the Book of Hills and Seas 366 The Fair of the Five Fierce Gods 374 From Hundred-plant Garden to Three-flavour Study 389 Father's Illness 396 Mr. Fujino 404 Fan Ainong 412 My First Teacher 423 The Hanging Woman 433 Volume Two Editor's Note 7 1918 My Views on Chastity 13 Random Thoughts (25) 26 Random Thoughts (35) 29 1919 Random Thoughts (39) 33 Random Thoughts (40) 36 Random Thoughts (43) 39 Random Thoughts (47) 41 Random Thoughts (49) 42 Random Thoughts (57) — Murderers of the Present 44 Random Thoughts (58) — Men Are Just What They Always Were 45 Random Thoughts (59) — "Martial and Sagacious" 48 Random Thoughts (62) — Dying in Bitterness 52 Random Thoughts (66) — The Road of Life 54 What Is Required of Us as Fathers Today 56 1921 Knowledge is a Crime 75 1922 What I Ask of the Critics 81 1923 What Happens After Nora Leaves Home? 85 1924 Waiting for a Genius 95 The Collapse of Leifeng Pagoda 100 My Moustache 103 1925 Sudden Notions (1) 111 More Thoughts on the Collapse of Leifeng Pagoda 113 Thoughts Before the Mirror 119 Sudden Notions (4) 125 On Self-sacrifice 128 Fighters and Flies 133 Three Summer Pests 134 Sudden Notions (5) 136 Sudden Notions (6) 138 Idle Thoughts at the End of Spring 141 Some Notions Jotted Down By Lamplight 148 Stray Thoughts 158 Sudden Notions (7) 161 Teachers 164 The Great Wall 167 Sudden Notions (9) 168 After "Knocking Against The Wall" 171 Sudden Notions (10) 178 Stopgap Writing 182 His Mother's! 192 On Looking Facts In The Face 198 Not Idle Chat (3) 205 Guafuism 212 This and That 219 On Deferring "Fair Play" 228 1926 Three Spirits in the Teaching Profession 241 The Classics and the Vernacular 246 A Few Parables 249 On Seeing Off The Kitchen God 252 On Emperors 256 More Roses Without Blooms 259 "Dangerous Ground" 261 A Tragi-comedy 264 In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen 267 Empty Talk 273 This "Suppression of Reds" 277 A Slap-dash Diary 279 A Slap-dash Diary Continued 284 How I Drew My Pay 293 Record of a Speech 300 A Letter from Shanghai 306 A Letter from Xiamen 310 How "The True Story of Ah Q" was written 313 1927 A Letter Written At Sea 323 Silent China 328 Literature of a Revolutionary Period 334 The Other Side of Celebrating the Recovery of Shanghai and Nanjing 342 Reply to Mr. Youheng 346 Anxious Thoughts on "Natural Breasts" 353 Odd Fancies 356 Hongkong Again 359 In the Belfry 367 Rousseau and Personal Taste 377 Literature and Sweat 381 Volume Three Editor's Note 7 1928 Befuddled Wooliness 15 Situ Qiao's Paintings 23 Literature and Revolution 25 The Tablet 29 Heads 31 Two Letters 33 The Spells 42 Wiping Out The Reds — A Great Spectacle 45 1929 Some Thoughts on Our New Literature 51 The Evolution of Roughs 57 The Function of the Critics of the Crescent Moon Society 60 The History of My Connection With The Tatler 62 1930 "Hard Translation" and the "Class Character of Literature" 75 Custom and Reform 97 Unrevolutionary Eagerness for Revolution 100 Thoughts on the League of Left-wing Writers 103 The Critics We Need 109 Government-by-Gentlemen-ism 112 Homeless, Senseless Watchdog of The Capitalists 114 1931 The Revolutionary Literature of the Chinese Proletariat and the Blood of the Pioneers 119 The Present Condition of Art in Darkest China 122 A Glance at Shanghai Literature 127 The Task and Fate of "Nationalist Literature" 142 Hard to Know, Hard to Do 153 The New Don Quixotes of the Chinese Republic 156 On "Shocking Our Friendly Neighbours" 159 A Reply to the Magazine The Dipper 162 1932 Preface to Lin Keduo's Eye-witness Account of the Soviet Union 167 Preface to Three Leisures 171 Preface to Two Hearts 176 We Can No Longer Be Duped 180 Foreword to The Harp 183 On the "Third Category" 187 A Defence of "Serial-picture Books" 192 Abuse and Threats Are Not Fighting 197 Preface to My Selected Works 200 Preface to In Two Places 204 The Ties Between Chinese and Russian Literatures 209 1933 Listening to Dreams 217 On Watching Fights 221 An Apology for Flight 223 On "Going Into Battle" and "Running Away" 225 The Fact of the Matter 230 Strategic Considerations 232 Written for the Sake of Forgetting 234 Who is the Paradox? 247 On Seeing Shaw and Those Who Saw Shaw 250 Preface to Bernard Shaw in Shanghai 255 From Satire to Humour 255 From Humour to Gravity 260 How I Came to Write Stories 262 "When The Light Comes. . . ." 266 Modern History 268 The Chinese People's "Lifebelt" 270 On Writing and the Choice of a Subject 272 A New Drug 275 A Kingly Culture 277 Above and Below 280 A Mental Reservation 283 More Mental Reservations 286 Refuting Talk of "In Name But Not In Fact" 288 On Not Trying to Understand Thoroughly 290 Preface to the Works of Li Dazhao 293 More on the "Third Category" 297 In Praise of Night 302 Pushing 304 Experience 306 Proverbs 309 The Art of the Number-two Clown 312 Random Thoughts 314 On Bats 316 To Live by One's Wits 318 The "Tomins" 320 Sand 322 Surplus Knowledge 324 The Chinese Imagination 326 Kicking 328 "Pessimism in the Chinese World of Letters" 330 Shanghai Girls 332 Shanghai Children 334 A Stroll on and Autumn Evening 336 Climbing and Hurtling 338 The Crisis of the Essay 340 Some Thoughts in Early Autumn 344 The Secret of Being a Joker 346 From Deafness to Dumbness 348 More Thoughts in Early Autumn 351 Some Jottings 354 Written at Random 357 Tea Drinking 360 Prohibition and Manufacture 362 Circus Shows 364 Thinking of the Past 366 The Quintessence of Worldly Wisdom 369 Charging 372 On Women's Liberation 374 Fire 377 Volume Four Editor's Note 7 1934 Women are not the Worst Liars 13 The Critics of the Critics 15 Invective 17 "Beijing Types" and "Shanghai Types" 19 The New Year 22 A Chance for Chit-Chat 24 Two or Three Things Chinese 26 A Reply to the International Literature 35 On the Adoption of Old Forms 37 Let Us Do a Little Reading 41 The Case of Mrs. Qin Lizhai 43 An Illustrated Primer 46 Hung by the Heels 49 The Take-over Policy 51 Toys 54 Snacks 56 Now is the Time 58 Impractical Advice and Scepticism 60 The Real Nature of the "Radicals" 63 The World of Cicadas 65 In Memory of Wei Suyuan 67 Settling Old Scores 74 In Memory of Lui Bannong 76 Notes After Reading (1) 80 Notes After Reading (2) 82 Thoughts on a Child's Photographs 84 Setting the Fashion and Sticking to Tradition 88 How to Find Contentment in Poverty 91 How Extraordinary! 94 On Parading Gods and Biting Men 97 Notes After Reading (3) 100 A Layman's Remarks on Writing 102 Forgetting Meat and Forgetting Water 126 Have the Chinese Lost Their Self-confidence? 129 On "Face" 131 Fate 135 Napoleon and Jenner 138 A Reply to the Editor of The Theatre 139 Spooks and Spectres in the Chinese World of Letters 147 Rival Schools of Reading 155 Ah Jin 158 The Vulgar Should Keep Out of Gentlemen's Way 163 1935 Hermits 167 On Satire 173 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (1) 176 Street Vendors Past and Present 179 Confucius in Modern China 182 What is Satire? 191 Gossip is a Fearful Thing 194 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (2) 198 From Help to Twaddle 201 Famous Men and Famous Sayings 203 "Trust to Heaven for Food" 208 Tragedies Almost Devoid of Incident 210 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (3) 213 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (4) 216 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (5) 219 The Writing-brush and Other Matters 224 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (6) — Two Exploitations 227 "Scholars Scorn Each Other" (7) 230 About Dostoyevsky 234 Notes Without Titles (7, 8, 9) 236 1936 The Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art 253 I Want to Cheat 256 A Preface to Bai Mang's The Children's Pagoda 261 Written in Deep Night 263 The International Settlement in March 275 Reply to a Letter from the Trotskyites 279 Reply to Xu Maoyong and on the Question of the United Front Against Japanese Aggression 283 Jottings in Mid-summer 301 This Too Is Life 305 Death 310 "For Future Reference" (3) 316 Some Recollections of Zhang Taiyan 322 A Few Matters Connected with Zhang Taiyan 327 Appendices A Brief Chronology of Lu Xun's Life and Writing 335 A Note on the Romanization of Chinese Names 34 Chronological Table of Chinese History 346