Lao She
- Name: Lao She
- Native name: 老舍
- Also Known as: Shu Qingchun, 舒庆春, She Yu, 舍予, Lau Shaw, 舒慶春, Shu Qing Chun
- Nationality: Chinese
- Gender: Male
- Born: February 3, 1899
- Died: August 24, 1966
He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature and is best known for his novel "Rickshaw Boy" and the play "Teahouse" (茶館). Lao She was a major popularizer of humor writing in China, especially through his novels, his short stories and essays for journals, and his stage plays and other performing arts, notably xiangsheng.
Lao She experienced mistreatment when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966. Condemned as a counterrevolutionary, he was paraded by the Red Guards through the streets and beaten publicly at the doorsteps of the Temple of Confucius in Beijing. According to the official record, this abuse left Lao She greatly humiliated both mentally and physically, and he committed suicide by drowning himself in Beijing's Taiping Lake on 24 August 1966.
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Original Creator
Title | Rating |
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Mr. No Problem | 6.4 |
Tea House | 7.7 |
Black and White Lee | 0.0 |
New Four Generations Living Together | 7.4 |
The Moon and the Sunshine | 10.0 |
Wo Zhe Yi Bei Zi | 0.0 |
Father and Son of the Ma Family | 0.0 |
Divorce | 4.0 |
Divorce | 0.0 |
The Street Players | 0.0 |
Crescent Moon | 0.0 |
Four Generations Living Together | 0.0 |
Rickshaw Boy | 7.3 |
The Teahouse | 8.0 |
What Price Love | 0.0 |
Fang Zhenzhu | 0.0 |
Long Xu Gou | 0.0 |
This Life of Mine | 8.0 |
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