Selected Poems, Lyrics, and Quatrain by Lu Qian: Collected Writings by Jiye Wen

Author: Lu Qian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-10
Features: This book includes ancient poetry, modern poetry, ci poems, sanqu, and zaju written by Lu Qian. The ancient poetry is selected from "Thirty Years Before Poetry Selection" and "Jiyue Recent Poetry" in the "Selected Works of Jiyue," with the 1941 edition of "Selected Works of Jiyue" published by the China Cultural Service Society as the base. The modern poetry includes 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 of "Spring Rain" published by Kaiping Bookstore in 1937. "Green Curtain" is based on the 1934 revised edition of Kaiping Bookstore. The third part, ci poems, includes Lu Qian's more representative work "Zhongxing Guhu," which has multiple versions. We selected the more complete four-volume Nanjing edition (1947) as the base. The sanqu section is mainly selected from "Complete Qing Dynasty Sanqu" published by Qi Lu Book Society in 1985, with reference to the 1979 reprinted edition of "Yinhong Yuefu" by Jiangsu Ancient Books Engraving Society. Additionally, we included Lu Qian's "Yinhong Five Species," a zaju he was particularly proud of. At the end of the book, appendices are included with critiques of Lu Qian's poetry, 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 sanqu scholar Wu Mei and held multiple identities as a poet, literary historian, sanqu writer, and playwright. During his lifetime, he continuously wrote academic works, essays, poetry, ci, and sanqu. "Jiyue Literary Collected Works" is divided into four sections: "Four Types of Lu Qian's Sanqu Studies," "Drafts of Lu Qian's Historical and Literary Theories," "Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts of Lu Qian," and "Selected Poems, Ci, and Sanqu of Lu Qian." It compiles Lu Qian's major academic works, essays, and poetry and ci creations, serving as important materials for studying Lu Qian and Chinese theater. This book is one of those sections.