Camel Xiangzi
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Camel Xiangzi" is a work created by Lao She in 1936. The inspiration for the work came from Lao She's friend telling him about the experience of a rickshaw puller he met. This aroused Lao She's interest, so he collected information and observed the lives of Peking workers to create this novel. The novel tells the story of a rickshaw puller named Xiangzi. In order to realize the freedom of pulling a rickshaw, he vowed to buy his own rickshaw. For this purpose, Xiangzi tried his best to save money, but he kept running into obstacles during the process: he finally bought his own car, but encountered a war and his people and the car were robbed and lost; After saving money, he was blackmailed by the military police; in the end, he married Huniu, whom he didn't like, and finally bought a car for the second time. Huniu died again, and he had to sell the car to pay for Huniu's funeral... With such a series of blows, Xiangzi finally gave up his ideals, muddle along, contracted bad habits, and eventually became a useless person. The work adopts the form of seeing the big from the small, using the disillusionment of a small person's ideals to show the dilemma of ordinary workers in the old era who had no way out. It is vivid, touching and thought-provoking.
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