Selected Classics of Lao She

Author: Lao She
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: In the ever-changing times and spaces, in the irreversible process of life, classics are the words, sounds, and expressions that have conquered time. Those honest statements, those fearless shouts, those reflections on the human spirit, awaken our past expectations, boost our current courage, and no longer lead a hollow and extravagant life, doubting the future. Through the hard life of a rickshaw puller, the novel depicts how the old world destroyed an upright, ambitious, dignified, and self-reliant rickshaw puller both physically and spiritually. Xiangzi is kind and innocent, possessing the positive and resilient spirit of a camel in his life. His only wish is to buy his own rickshaw and become an independent laborer. After three years of effort, he uses his blood and sweat to earn a rickshaw, but it is soon stolen by soldiers; then, a counter-revolutionary government detective tricks him out of his only savings; and the reluctant "love" of Lü'niu brings torment to both his body and mind. He buys a rickshaw with Hugui's money but has to sell it soon to arrange her funeral.