biography
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Lao She
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also known as Shu Ching-chün
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pronunciation:
[lau shoe]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1966)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Beijing, China. He lectured in Britain, USA, and China, and was influenced by Western writers including Dickens and Swift. His earlier work on humorous stories was later replaced by social concerns. His major novel Rickshaw Boy (1937) sympathetically recounted rickshawmen's lives in the early 20th-c and exposed the dismal existence of republican China's masses. Cat City (influenced by Gulliver's Travels) was a satirical allegory on the state of China. After 1949 he wrote several plays acceptable to Communist orthodoxy, and Rickshaw Boy has been filmed (1984) and serialized on Chinese television. |
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