Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

By Lu Hsun / Lu Xun

The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories

Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang
Selected Stories of Lu Hsun is a collection of English translations of major stories of the Chinese author Lu Xun translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang and first published in 1960 by the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing.
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.

Contents

1. Note from dust jacket
2. Preface to "Call to Arms"
3. A Madman's Diary
4. Kung I-chi
5. Medicine
6. Tomorrow
7. An Incident
8. Storm in a Teacup
9. My Old Home
10. The True Story of Ah Q
11. Village Opera
12. The New Year's Sacrifice
13. In the Wine Shop
14. A Happy Family
15. Soap
16. The Misanthrope
17. Regret for the Past
18. The Divorce
19. The Flight to the Moon
20. Forging the Swords