Lu Xun - Three Idle Collections

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Three Idle Collections (三闲集)

Essay Collection by Lu Xun (鲁迅)

Period: 1927-1929


Section 1

[Complete Works of Lu Xun, Volume 4]

Three Idle Collections

Preface

-- 1927 -- Silent China How to Write (Night Record I) In the Bell Tower (Night Record II) Declining Professor Gu Jiegang's Order to Await Trial (with his letter) Three Pieces with a Bandit's Pen Two Pieces with a Certain Pen Account of Hong Kong's Respectful Christmas Celebration Condolence and Congratulation

-- 1928 -- Haziness in Drunken Eyes Viewing the Paintings of Mr. Situ Qiao Lu Xun's Notice in Shanghai Literature and Revolution (with Dongfen's letter) Flat Road Head Correspondence (with Y's letter) Verses of Peace Grand Spectacle of Communist Suppression My Attitude, Temperament, and Age The Revolutionary Cafe Anecdotes of the Literary World (with Xu Yun's letter) The Class Nature of Literature (with Kailiang's letter)

-- 1929 -- Vanguard of the Revolutionary Army and The Left Behind Introduction to Modern World Short Stories Overview of Today's New Literature Imperial Chinese Medicine A Page from Our War History Against Russia Introduction to Ye Yongzhen's A Small Decade Introduction to Rou Shi's February Preface to the Translation of Little Peter The Evolution of Rogues The Task of the Crescent Moon Society's Critics Books and Wealth and Beauty My Relationship with Yusi from Start to Finish Bibliography of Lu Xun's Translations and Works

Two Hearts Collection

Preface

-- 1930 -- Hard Translation and The Class Nature of Literature Habit and Reform Non-Revolutionary Radical Revolutionaries Mr. Zhang Ziping's Science of the Novel Opinions on the League of Left-Wing Writers We Need Critics Good Government Ideology The Homeless Tired Lapdog of the Capitalist Introduction to Evolution and Degeneration The Secret of Writing Classical Prose and Being a Good Person

-- 1931 -- On the Edition of Poetic Dialogues of Tripitaka's Pilgrimage A Brief Biography of Rou Shi Chinese Proletarian Revolutionary Literature and the Blood of Its Forerunners The State of the Literary World in Dark China A Glimpse of Shanghai's Literature and Art Introduction to the Study Exhibition of the Eighteen Arts Society Reply to Questions from the Literary News Agency The Mission and Fate of Nationalist Literature The Rising of Sediment Serving the Country with One's Feet Tailing in the Tang Dynasty Introduction to Eve's Diary The New Female Warrior Propaganda and Play-Acting Hard to Know, Hard to Act Some Smooth Translations Horses, Winds, and Cattle Another Smooth Translation The New Don Quixotes of the Republic of China Preface to the English Translation of Wild Grass Long Live the Intellectual Worker On the Astonishment of Friendly Nations Reply to Questions from the Middle School Students' Magazine Reply to Questions from the Polaris Magazine Correspondence on Fiction Subjects (with letters from Y and T) Correspondence on Translation (with letters from J and K) Modern Cinema and the Propertied Class (translation, with postscript)

Pseudo Free Book

Prefatory Note Watching the Fight In Defense of Fleeing Reverence for the Practical Advantages and Disadvantages of Electricity Three Wishes for Saving the Nation Through Aviation Two Kinds of Incomprehension


Section 2

General Discussion Arising Therefrom: The Most Accessible Literature and Art - Wang Pingling


Section 3

Dismantling the General Discussion: Merely Official Talk - Jiagan Swearing Oaths Strategic Relations


Section 4

For Reference: Sharing Remarkable Writings - Zhou Jingchai In Praise of Shaw


Section 5

The Chief Editor Angered Again: Shaw Is Extraordinary After All - Editorial from the Great Evening News


Section 6

Not Admiring the Chief Editor Either: Commentary on the Preceding Text - Le Wen Prayer for War From Satire to Humor From Humor to Seriousness The Kingly Way - A Poem Seeking Justice The Liberation of Opera Discounts in Literature The Head-On Sutra Where the Light Reaches Stop-Crying Literature


Section 7

For Reference: Advocating Chili Peppers to Save the Nation - Wang Ci


Section 8

Stubbornly Using Chili to Stop Crying: Don't Bite People Randomly - Wang Ci


Section 9

But in the End It Won't Do: It Gets Stranger and Stranger - Jiagan Human Speech The Secret of Selling One's Soul Men of Letters Without Letters


Section 10

For Reference: Bad Habits - Ruo Gu


Section 11

Snide Remarks?: The Fourth Kind of Person - Zhou Muzhai


Section 12

Enjoying the Cool: Two Mistakes and One Disagreement - Jiagan The Most Artistic Nation Modern History The Tuibei Prophecy Objection to Killed the Wrong People


Section 13

For Reference: Killed the Wrong People - Cao Juren The Life Circle of the Chinese Inside and Outside To the Bottom


Section 14

Incoming Letter: (Zhu Xiuxia)


Section 15

Reply Letter: Using Barbarians to Control Barbarians


Section 16

Using Chinese to Control Chinese - Li Jiazuo


Section 17

Wavering: Able to Mend One's Ways - Fu Hongliao


Section 18

Just a Few Words: Commentary - Jiagan The Limits of Free Speech The Talents of the Grand View Garden Articles and Titles New Medicine Month of Many Troubles An Irresponsible Tank From Sheng Xuanhuai to Justified Oppression Royal Civilizing Influence Heaven Above, Earth Below Reservations More on Reservations Rebuttal of In Name but Not in Fact Not Seeking to Understand Thoroughly Afterword



Source: Chinese original from the Complete Works of Lu Xun