骆驼祥子

By 老舍

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

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.