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"Lao She's great novel."
--The New York Times

A beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese novel from Lao She, one of the most acclaimed and popular Chinese writers of the twentieth century, Rickshaw Boy chronicles the trials and misadventures of... Read Full Overview

Renowned for his absurdist re-visioning of the world and experimentation with the techniques of humour in his writings, Lao She has written about most major historical events in modern China. In his masterpiece Camel Xiangzi, he reveals his prophetic vision of the future of China... Read Full Overview

This novel marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer and registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. It can be read as an "epic" of modern China.

Rickshaw is a new translation of the twentieth-century Chinese classic Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu, the first important study of a laborer in modern Chinese literature. While the rest of the Chinese literary world debated hotly, and for years, the value of proletarian literature, Lao She... Read Full Overview

Lao She's classic novel, better known as Rickshaw Boy, is set in 1920s China. the republic had been declared a decade ago and now the country is close to civil war. It is every man for himself and against this backdrop unfolds the story of a rickshaw-puller named Xiangzi who... Read Full Overview

This is the large print, complete and unabridged edition of the original classic - Rickshaw Boy by Lao She. It's 16 point font size, on 60# paper in a large 8"x10" format. Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing... Read Full Overview

Rickshaw Boy (Camel Xiangzi) is a poignant tragedy set in the streets of old Beiping, following the life of a humble rickshaw puller named Xiangzi. Against the vividly drawn backdrop of city life in the late 1920s, the novel charts Xiangzi's relentless struggles and crushing... Read Full Overview