Books by Lao She

Rickshaw Boy

Lao She

Xiangzi, a strong young man come to the city from the countryside, pulls a rickshaw through 1920s Beijing with one dream, to own his own rickshaw and be his own master, and the city and its cruelties grind that dream down step by step. Lao She maps the real Beijing of the rickshaw men: the hutong rental yards where they lodge, the city gates where soldiers seize Xiangzi, the Western Hills he flees to with the army's camels, and the scholarly households of Haidian where he briefly finds decency.

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