Since its establishment, the Ming dynasty was troubled by border issues and foreign threats. This situation worsened in the sixteenth century with the Japanese piracy crisis, the Manchu threat from the northeast, the ...
Focusing on literary tradition and innovation, this paper examines Lu Xun's poetics as represented in his early treatise On the Power of Mara Poetry (Moluo shi li shuo). As a leading writer and thinker deeply engag...