Camel Xiangzi
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Camel Xiangzi" takes the whereabouts of Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller from Peiping (today's Beijing) as a clue, and the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as the background. It describes the ups and downs and tragic experience of Xiangzi's transformation from a man to a "beast", and praises Xiangzi's hard-working, simple, kind and progressive qualities. It profoundly exposes the darkness of old China, accuses the ruling class of the exploitation and oppression of workers, expresses the author's deep concern and sympathy for the suffering fate of the working people struggling at the bottom of society, and shows people the picture of Beijing's poor citizens at the bottom living in an abyss of pain under the warlords' melee and dark rule.
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