The Lyrical Lu Xun : : A Study of His Classical-Style Verse / / / Jon Eugene von Kowallis.

• VerfasserIn: Kowallis, Jon Eugene von,
• Author: Kowallis, Jon Eugene von,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; The Lyrical Lu Xun --; Introduction --; Lu Xun's Childhood and Youth (1881-1901) --; Japan and Back(1902-1909; 1909-1917) --; The May Fourth Era (1918-1927) --; A "Fellow Traveler"? (1927-1936) --; Verse in the Classical Style --; 1. Three Verses on Parting from My Brothers --; 2. Lotus Seedpod People --; 3. Seeing Off the Kitchen God in the Year 1901 --; 4. An Offertory for the God of Books --; 5. Three Verses on Parting from My Brothers --; 6. A Fondness for Flowers: Four Regulated Verses --; 7. Untitled (usually referred to as "Personally Inscribed on a Small Picture") --; 8. Three Stanzas Mourning Fan Ainong --; 9. Redressing Grievances on Behalf of the Beanstalks --; 10. My Heartfelt Sympathies for Rousseau --; 11. Untitled --; 12. For Wu Qishan (Uchiyama Kanzo) --; 13. For Mr. O. E. on the Occasion of His Return [to Japan] with [a Shipment of] Orchids --; 14. A Lament for Rou Shi --; 15. For a Japanese Poet --; 16. Untitled --; 17. Ode to the Goddess of the Xiang River --; 18. Two Untitled Poems --; 19. For Masuda Wataru on the Occasion of His Return to Japan --; 20. In Answer to a Gibe from a Guest --; 21. Lyrics for a Nanking Ditty --; 22. Untitled --; 23. An Impromptu Composition --; 24. For Pengzi --; 25. Written after the January Twenty-eighth Conflict --; 26. Laughing at My Own Predicament --; 27. Desultory Versifying on Professors --; 28. Hearsay --; 29. Two Untitled Poems --; 30. Untitled --; 31. New Year's Day in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic --; 32. For a Master Painter --; 33. Students and Jade Buddhas --; 34. Lamenting the College Students --; 35. Inscribed in a Copy of Outcry --; 36. Inscribed in a Copy of Wandering --; 37. A Lament for Yang Quan --; 38. Inscription for the Stupa of the Three Fidelities --; 39. Untitled --; 40. A Lament for Ms. Ding --; 41. Two Poems as a Gift --; 42. Untitled --; 43. Untitled --; 44. Against Yu Dafu's Move to Hangzhou --; 45. A Spoof on Newspaper Reports That I Had Contracted Encephalitis --; 46. Untitled --; 47. Feelings on an Autumn Night --; 48. Inscribed on Part 3 of Mustard-Seed Garden --; 49. Composed on an Impulse in Late Autumn of 1935 --; Epilogue "Mourning at Lu Xun's Grave" --; Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824845872
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824845872
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jon Eugene von Kowallis.

The influence of Lu Xun (1881-1936) in China's cultural, literary, and artistic life over the last sixty years has been inestimable. A poet from a backwater town, Lu Xun was propelled by the times into the various careers of educator, writer, publicist, professor, and polemicist. He was, however, first and foremost a classical scholar, writing some of his best works in classical form. The Lyrical Lu Xun is the most complete treatment of his classical-style poetry in any foreign language, containing translations and extensive discussions of sixty-four poems in the highly stylized forms of jueju (quatrains) and lushi (full-length regulated verse) - forms with detailed, strict rules for rhyme and tonal prosody that evolved according to pronunciations and standards set up more than a thousand years ago.