Chapter 17 Preface to the First Volume of "Shanghai Forest"

This volume is almost entirely about literature; only five of "Reality" [2] are based on the magazine "Literary Heritage" [3], except for two prefaces and postscripts, the rest are translate. When editing this collection, it was mostly based on the original manuscript; however, "The Preface to Sirafimovich's Iron Flow" [4] was collected from the typesetting copy. "Book Prints and Single Line Prints in the Past Fifteen Years" [5] is an excerpt and seems to have been slightly modified by others. articles, so it is still not eliminated. "Indifference" is also based on a typesetting version, which should have been collected in "Supplements to Gorky's Papers", but unfortunately it was published a little too late, and the book has already been sorted, so it has to be attached at the end of the volume.

As for the diction, only a few obvious clerical errors were corrected and a few missing characters were added; as for the transliteration of place names due to intermittent translation, or the lack of reference books at that time, there were occasional unspecified points in the notes, which are now No revisions are made to preserve the truth. Regarding the collection of manuscripts and proof printing, I have received help from many friends, and I would like to thank them here. In late March 1936, editor. CC [1] This article was originally printed in the first volume of "Shanghai Lin".

"Shanghai Lin" is a collection of translations by Qu Qiubai. After Qu Qiubai was killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries, it was collected, edited and published by Lu Xun. It is divided into two volumes.The copyright page of the first volume of "Benefiting Forest" was published in May 1936, and included literary essays by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Plekhanov, Lafargue, etc., as well as Gorky's anthology and supplements.Due to the oppression of the Kuomintang authorities at that time, when the book was published, it was only signed with the "Zhuxia Huaishuang Society's school seal", and the three Latin letters "STR" were signed on the spine.According to Zhuxia, that is, China, see "The Analects of Confucius·Bayi", which quotes the later Han Bao Xian said; Shuang, Qu Qiubai's original name (later renamed Shuang); STR, that is, Shi Tie'er, a pen name of Qu Qiubai.

[2] "Reality" is a collection of Marxist literature and art essays compiled by Qu Qiubai based on the first and second issues of "Literary Heritage" published by the Soviet Academy of Communism.Included are seven papers and letters on literature and art by Engels, Plekhanov, and Lafargue, six related papers compiled by the translator, and one epilogue.When Lu Xun edited "Shanghai Forest", in order to adapt to the environment at that time, he changed the subtitle "Marxist Literary Essays" to "Scientific Literary Essays". [3] "The Legacy of Literature" is an irregular series published by the Academy of Soviet Communism, which contains mostly unpublished works of past writers and biographical materials about them. 〔4〕Preface to "Sirafimovich's Iron Flow", written by Neradov, the editor of the complete works of Sirafimovich, originally titled "October Artists". "Shanghai Forest" is based on the Chinese translation of "Tie Liu" published by Sanxian Bookstore in 1931.

〔5〕"Book Prints and Single Line Prints in the Past Fifteen Years" written by Kaigodaev, excerpted from the first and second issues of the Soviet Union's "Art" magazine.The translation was printed in "Yin Yu Ji" edited and edited by Lu Xun in 1934 and published under the name of Sanxian Bookstore.