The Lyrical Lu Xun: A Study of His Classical-Style Verse

By Jon Eugene Von Kowallis, Lu Xun, Cleo Qian

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824815114
• ISBN13: 9780824815110
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"