Lu Xun's Letters - (Complete Four Volumes)

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Lu Xun's letters were collected by Guangping over time. In June 1937, Sanxian Shuwu published a photolithographic edition of Lu Xun's Letters, containing 69 letters. Later, in October 1946, the Lu Xun Complete Works published a typeset edition of Lu Xun's Letters, including 855 letters and three fragments. In the 9th and 10th volumes of the Lu Xun Complete Works published by our press in 1958, a total of 334 letters were included. The Lu Xun Letters Collection published in 1976 contained 1,381 letters (including 96 letters to Japanese individuals) and 18 appendices. The 1981 edition of the Lu Xun Complete Works included 1,333 letters, with an additional 112 letters to foreign individuals and 12 appendices. Except for the letters already included in Lu Xun's self-edited collections and Collected Fragments from Outside the Collection, all discovered letters of Lu Xun at the time were included. The 2005 edition was based on the 1981 edition, removing two duplicate entries and one incorrect entry, adding 18 newly discovered letters, and including one item titled Record of Letters Answering Kentaro Takeda's Questions.