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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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