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No.43 on The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf – Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy

Posted: November 6th, 2023 | No Comments »

In Rickshaw Boy, Lao She offers vivid descriptions of Republican-Era Beijing while crafting a timeless story about the vicissitudes of a worker’s life. In this weeks The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf entry we revisit this proletarian classic: click here

Illustration for The China Project by Alex Santafé

It also became a movie in 1982 when adapted by director Ling Zifeng…



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