骆驼祥子

By 老舍

Subjects: Rickshaw men, Chinese fiction--20th century, Chinese fiction, Xiao shuo, Zhang pian xiao shuo, Ju ben, Xuan ji ., Fiction, general, Xuan ji, Chang pian xiao shuo, Suo xie ben, Fate and fatalism, Fiction, Hua ju, Beijing (china), fiction, Zhong pian xiao shuo, Language and languages, Suo xie, China, fiction, Poor, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)

Description: 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.