Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. The Lyrical Lu Xun
5. Introduction 1
6. Lu Xun's Childhood and Youth (1881-1901) 9
7. Japan and Back(1902-1909; 1909-1917) 17
8. The May Fourth Era (1918-1927) 27
9. A "Fellow Traveler"? (1927-1936) 33
10. Verse in the Classical Style
11. 1. Three Verses on Parting from My Brothers 53
12. 2. Lotus Seedpod People 62
13. 3. Seeing Off the Kitchen God in the Year 1901 67
14. 4. An Offertory for the God of Books 71
15. 5. Three Verses on Parting from My Brothers 82
16. 6. A Fondness for Flowers: Four Regulated Verses 88
17. 7. Untitled (usually referred to as "Personally Inscribed on a Small Picture") 100
18. 8. Three Stanzas Mourning Fan Ainong 108
19. 9. Redressing Grievances on Behalf of the Beanstalks 121
20. 10. My Heartfelt Sympathies for Rousseau 126
21. 11. Untitled 131
22. 12. For Wu Qishan (Uchiyama Kanzo) 135
23. 13. For Mr. O. E. on the Occasion of His Return [to Japan] with [a Shipment of] Orchids 142
24. 14. A Lament for Rou Shi 147
25. 15. For a Japanese Poet 152
26. 16. Untitled 156
27. 17. Ode to the Goddess of the Xiang River 162
28. 18. Two Untitled Poems 168
29. 19. For Masuda Wataru on the Occasion of His Return to Japan 174
30. 20. In Answer to a Gibe from a Guest 178
31. 21. Lyrics for a Nanking Ditty 181
32. 22. Untitled 185
33. 23. An Impromptu Composition 189
34. 24. For Pengzi 194
35. 25. Written after the January Twenty-eighth Conflict 198
36. 26. Laughing at My Own Predicament 202
37. 27. Desultory Versifying on Professors 209
38. 28. Hearsay 219
39. 29. Two Untitled Poems 223
40. 30. Untitled 229
41. 31. New Year's Day in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic 234
42. 32. For a Master Painter 238
43. 33. Students and Jade Buddhas 241
44. 34. Lamenting the College Students 247
45. 35. Inscribed in a Copy of Outcry 253
46. 36. Inscribed in a Copy of Wandering 256
47. 37. A Lament for Yang Quan 260
48. 38. Inscription for the Stupa of the Three Fidelities 265
49. 39. Untitled 272
50. 40. A Lament for Ms. Ding 278
51. 41. Two Poems as a Gift 283
52. 42. Untitled 288
53. 43. Untitled 292
54. 44. Against Yu Dafu's Move to Hangzhou 298
55. 45. A Spoof on Newspaper Reports That I Had Contracted Encephalitis 307
56. 46. Untitled 311
57. 47. Feelings on an Autumn Night 316
58. 48. Inscribed on Part 3 of Mustard-Seed Garden 326
59. 49. Composed on an Impulse in Late Autumn of 1935 331
60. Epilogue "Mourning at Lu Xun's Grave" 339
61. Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms 343
62. Bibliography 353
63. Index 363