更多英语学习资料请访问博客：（原创英语小说，新闻, 中英对照翻译）http:/blog.sina.com.cn/dengfuzhang1鲁迅全集Selected Work of Luxun English EditionSelected Stories of Lu Hsun By Lu Hsun The True Story of Ah Q,and Other Stories(written 1918-1926)Translated byYang Hsien-yiand Gladys Yang Published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1960, 1972Printed in the Peoples Republic of ChinaContents1. Note from dust jacket 2. Preface to Call to Arms 1922 3. A Madmans Diary 4. Kung I-chi 5. Medicine 6. Tomorrow 7. An Incident 8. Storm in a Teacup 9. My Old Home 10. The True Story of Ah Q 11. Village Opera 12. The New Years Sacrifice 13. In the Wine Shop 14. A Happy Family 15. Soap 16. The Misanthrope 17. Regret for the Past 18. The Divorce 19. The Flight to the Moon 20. Forging the Swords LU HSUN (1881-1936), chief commander of Chinas modern cultural revolution, was not only a great thinker and political commentator but the founder of modern Chinese literature. As early as in the May 1918 issue of the magazine New Youth, Lu Hsun published one of his best stories, A Madmans Diary. This was his declaration of war against Chinas feudal society, and the first short story in the history of modern Chinese literature. Thereafter he followed up with a succession of stories such as The True Story of Ah Q and The New Years Sacrifice, which cut through and sharply attacked stark reality in the dark old society. These stories were later included in the three volumes Call to Arms, Wandering and Old Tales Retold, and have become treasures in the Chinese peoples literary heritage.In his early life Lu Hsun was a revolutionary democrat, who later matured into a communist. His earlier works were mainly stories, 18 of the more important of which, plus the preface to Call to Arms, his first short story collection, have been selected for this volume. The stories show clearly his method in this period of creative writing, thoroughgoing critical realism, a method closely related to the outright anti-imperialist and anti-feudal views which he formed in his early days.In his preface to Call to Arms, the author tells his motive in choosing literature as a weapon of struggle. This will give readers a deeper understanding of Lu Hsuns stories.Preface to:Call to ArmsTO THE FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, CALL TO ARMSWhen I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from my memory.For more than four years I used to go, almost daily, to a pawnbrokers and to a medicine shop. I cannot remember how old I was then; but the counter in the medicine shop was the same height as I, and that in the pawnbrokers twice my height. I used to hand clothes and trinkets up to the counter twice my height, take the money proffered with contempt, then go to the counter the same height as I to buy medicine for my father who had long been ill. On my return home I had other things to keep me busy, for since the physician who made out the prescriptions was very well-known, he used unusual drugs: aloe root dug up in winter, sugar-cane that had been three years exposed to frost, twin crickets, and ardisia . . . all of which were difficult to procure. But my fathers illness went from bad to worse until he died.I believe those who sink from prosperity to poverty will probably come, in the process, to understand what the world is really like. I wanted to go to the K- school in N- perhaps because I was in search of a change of scene and faces. There was nothing for my mother to do but to raise eight dollars for my travelling expenses, and say I might do as I pleased. That she cried was only natural, for at that time the proper thing was to study the classics and take the official examinations. Anyone who studied foreign subjects was looked down upon as a fellow good for nothing, who, out of desperation, was forced to sell his soul to foreign devils.Besides, she was sorry to part with me. But in spite of that, I went to N- and entered the K- school; and it was there that I heard for the first time the names of such subjects as natural science, arithmetic, geography, history, drawing and physical training. They had no physiology course, but we saw woodblock editions of such works as A New Course on the Human Body and Essays on Chemistry and Hygiene. Recalling the talk and prescriptions of physicians I had known and comparing them with what I now knew, I came to the conclusion those physicians must be either unwitting or deliberate charlatans; and I began to sympathize with the invalids and families who su