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Xiangzi, a bankrupt young farmer who came to the city from the countryside, is eager to buy a foreign car of his own with his honest labor. With hard work and perseverance, he spent three years frugally and finally realized this ideal and became a self-reliant first-class coachman. But at that time, the social environment of Chinese warlords did not allow him to have the slightest personal illusion. Within half a year, Che was abducted by deserters in the chaos of war. Xiangzi was not discouraged, he still stubbornly started from the beginning. But before he could buy another car, all his savings were extorted by detectives, and his dream of buying a car came to nothing again. He pulled up his car again at the expense of a deformed marriage with Huniu. But the good times did not last long, Huniu died in childbirth, and Xiangzi was left empty-handed. At this point, his life ideals were completely shattered, and the suicide of his beloved woman, Xiao Fuzi, blew out the last spark of hope in his heart. He began to play games with life, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and turned into a walking zombie without a soul. "Camel Xiangzi" is a peak in all Lao She's creations. It is Lao She's representative work describing the tragic fate of the urban poor. It is also one of the best novels in the history of modern literature. It truly reflects the suffering life of the people at the bottom of old Chinese cities, and reveals the process of how a bankrupt farmer becomes a citizen and is thrown into the ranks of the lumpen proletariat by society, as well as the tragedy of spiritual destruction experienced in this process.
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