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Original Title:	骆驼祥子 [Luòtuó xiángzi]
ISBN:	0061436925 (ISBN13: 9780061436925)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Beijing(China)

Rickshaw Boy Paperback | Pages: 300 pages

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Title	:	Rickshaw Boy
Author	:	Lao She
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	September 7th 2010 by Harper Perennial (first published 1937)
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Fiction. Classics. Asia. Asian Literature. Chinese Literature

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A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver

First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw, Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted, time and again, in his attempts to improve his lot in life.

One of the most important and popular works of twentieth-century Chinese literature, Rickshaw Boy is an unflinchingly honest, darkly comic look at a life on the margins of society and a searing indictment of the philosophy of individualism.

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Xiangzi wants to swim upstream and be a self-sustaining individualist in a culture based on the collective. Or a Capitalist in a Socialist environment? It is, of course, hopeless unless you are a salmon. The parable that this book is actually sides with the collective. We read it in translation with the mindset that the individual is supreme but of course it was written from the other perspective and is a critique of the philosophy of individualism. Thus, Xiangzi is in the wrong and should be

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique of the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always utilizes a form of descriptive or critical realism. (Wikipedia)The Chinese classic Rickshaw Boy by Lao She is a book of social realism. As such,

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique of the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always utilizes a form of descriptive or critical realism. (Wikipedia)The Chinese classic Rickshaw Boy by Lao She is a book of social realism. As such,

Could be 3.5 stars. I liked the idea of it. It reminded a bit of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' but I liked that better. Maybe because I was 14 when I read it.I thought it was fine, but a bit flat. Easy to read. Easy to understand. At times too pedantic and scripted. It was a story I wanted to find moving. It deserves to be moving. Life is unfair, particularly to the lower classes. This story gives voice to that. However, it felt a bit draggy and pedantic. Just a bit. It could've been the



"The life of a poor manwas like the pit of a date, pointed on both ends and round in the middle. You're lucky to get through childhood without dying of hunger, and can hardly avoid starving to death when you're old. Only during your middle years, when you're strong and unafraid of either hunger or hard work, can you live like a human being." This is the essence of Lao She's Chinese classic novel Rickshaw Boy. Xiangzi is an impoverished rickshaw puller in his twenties who is ambitious enough to

So tragic and moving. A searing social critique of conditions during China's chaotic war and revolutionary years. I don't care if people accuse it of being deliberately manipulative or not, this was and is a memorable read for me. It is not hard to imagine that millions faced even worse than this during those tumultuous times.Final rating: 4.5*Note: This is the latest edition translated by Howard Goldblatt, who did such an excellent job with Mo Yan's 'Sandalwood Death'. There were at least two