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Lao She's "Rickshaw"
Analytical Essay # 21611
Lao She's "Rickshaw"
This paper analyzes the Chinese novel Lao She's "Rickshaw" as a portrait of social misery in Peking of 1920s and discusses the book's impact on culture.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
6 sources |
1994
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"Lao She was perhaps the best-known writer in China behind Lin Yutang, and he captured the spirit of the age of revolution and of change in China. His novel Rickshaw is his most enduring legacy, and yet it would also become an annoyance to the angry students of the Cultural Revolution and would lead to attacks on Lao She, both verbal and physical, in the 1960s. Translator Jean M. James says of Lao that he was, like Charles Dickens, a social novelist and a chronicler of Peking as Dickens was of London:The terrible life of the poor depicted in Rickshaw is hard to believe, but sociological studies conducted in Peking in the twenties describe the same conditions and worse.
An examination of the novel and the culture that produced it shows how Lao She developed his social commentary and some of the ... "
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Lao She's "Rickshaw" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Lao-She's-Rickshaw/21611
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"Lao She's "Rickshaw"" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Lao-She's-Rickshaw/21611>
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