Lao She

Shu Qingchun, who wrote under the name Lao She, was born in Beijing on 3 February 1899 into a Manchu family. His father, a guardsman, was killed in 1901 fighting the troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance. After teaching in Beijing and Tianjin, he spent five years in England, from 1924 to 1929, as a lecturer in Chinese in London; there he read Dickens, who inspired his first novel. At the start of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards beat him. He died in Beijing on 24 August 1966, drowned in Taiping Lake according to the official version.

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• NovelRickshaw Boy駱駝祥子Lao She · 1937Literature