A Lu Hsun Reader

This book contains Yale romanization, and not Wade-Giles.

Lyell's volume is an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any student of Chinese. It offers not only an important glance at the new birth of Chinese literature in the first few decades of the 20th century, but also allows a feel for the mass psyche at the time.Lyell tirelessly explains the naturally obscure references littered throughout, and this edition evidently had very much work and heart put into it. This is further evidenced by the hand-written chinese characters overflowing in the lengthy annotation. Really, it is a shame that other such works are so hard to find outside the classroom, even though I managed to find my copy in a travel bookstore.The only complaint one could have about this excellent volume is that the transliterations of chinese into english are in the Wade-Giles system, once as common as today's ubiquitous pinyin. Of course, that is merely a statement to the fact that the original 1967 edition still holds true.