All Lu Hsun's prose poems, twenty-three in all, are contained in this collection. Written between 1924 and 1926, they were compiled by the author into one volume entitled Wild Grass [野草], which was first published in 1927 by the Peihsin Bookstore, Peking. This English translation has been made from the 1973 edition published by the People's Literature Publishing House, Peking. To help readers to understand these prose poems better, the preface Lu Hsun wrote in 1931 for an English translation of Wild Grass, which never appeared in print, has been included in the present edition. — Publisher's Note
Author
Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. For the Traditional Chinese profile: here. For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅
