Selected Poems, Lyrics, and Quatrain by Lu Qian - Collected Writings of Ji Ye

Author: Lu Qian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book includes classical poems, modern poems, ci poems, sanqu, and zaju written by Lu Qian. The classical poems are selected from "Thirty Years Before Poems" and "Recent Poems" in Selected Works of Jiye, with the 1941 edition of Selected Works of Jiye published by the China Cultural Service Society as the base text. The modern poems include two modern poetry collections, Spring Rain and Green Curtain. Spring Rain is based on the 1926 edition published by Nanjing Bookstore, with reference to the third edition published by Kaiping Bookstore in 1937. Green Curtain is based on the 1934 revised edition published by Kaiping Bookstore. The third section features the representative Zhongxing Guhu (Middle Ages Trumpets) by Lu Qian. This book has multiple editions, and we selected the more complete four-volume Nanjing edition (1947) as the base text. The sanqu section is mainly selected from Complete Sanqu of the Qing Dynasty published by Qi Lu Book Society in 1985, with reference to the 1979 reprinted edition of Yin Hong Yuefu by Jiangsu Ancient Books Engraving Society. Additionally, it includes Lu Qian's Yin Hong Wu Zhong (Five Works of Yin Hong), which he was proud of, as zaju. At the end of the book, appendices are included with critiques of Lu Qian's poems, ci, and sanqu by contemporaries in their notes or writings. In the early 20th-century Chinese theater studies, Lu Qian was a prominent figure. He was a favored disciple of the renowned sanqu scholar Wu Mei and held multiple identities as a poet, literary historian, sanqu writer, and playwright. During his lifetime, he tirelessly wrote academic works, essays, poems, ci, and sanqu. Selected Works of Jiye is divided into four sections: Four Works of Lu Qian's Sanqu Studies, Drafts of Lu Qian's Historical and Literary Theories, Notes and Miscellaneous Writings of Lu Qian, and Selected Poems, Ci, and Sanqu of Lu Qian. It compiles Lu Qian's major academic works, essays, and poetic creations, serving as important materials for studying Lu Qian and Chinese theater. This book is one of those sections.