Lao She's Classic Complete Set (10 Volumes in Total)
by Lao She
About This Novel
A literary giant that future generations will always admire, an eternal monument! A literary classic worth reading by every generation of Chinese, and a national memory worth cherishing by every Chinese! Lao She is a great people's artist, a literary giant that future generations will always admire, and an eternal monument! Mr. Lao She's works include discussions on the national spirit and thoughts on destiny, allowing the author to appreciate the various aspects of life and the severity and heaviness of life. Lao She (1899.2.3-1966.8.24), Whose original name was Shu Qingchun, also named Sheyu. He also has pen names such as Jie Qing, Hong Lai, and Fei Wo. Beijing Manchu Zhenghongbanner, a famous modern Chinese writer, an outstanding language master, and the first writer in New China to win the title of "People's Artist". Lao She wrote quite a lot throughout his life, and his main works include "Camel Xiangzi", "Lao Zhang's Philosophy", "Two Horses", "Four Generations Under One Roof", "My Life", and the dramas "Teahouse" and "Longxugou", etc. Lao She's literary creation is basically based on the life of the lower class people in old Beijing. It has a strong flavor of Beijing and the city. The language is humorous, but the content is serious. The characters are vivid and natural, which is impressive. The "Complete Collection of Lao She's Classics" includes "Camel Xiangzi", "The Philosophy of Lao Zhang", "Two Horses", "Winter in Jinan", "Cat City", "In My Life", "Xiaopo's Birthday", "Dr. Wen", "Teahouse", "Longxugou", "Treasure Ship" and "Four Generations Under One Roof", etc., Among which are all his classic works. 1. "Luotuo Xiangzi" a long market novel "Luotuo Xiangzi" is one of Lao She's masterpieces. The novel describes the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller from the countryside, who experienced three ups and downs in Beiping during the warlord war in the 1920s. After three years of struggle, he finally bought a car of his own, but his good wishes always failed time and time again. In the end, his spiritual world completely collapsed and he became an insensitive walking zombie. 2. "Teahouse" shows the social changes of nearly half a century in three eras: the Reform Movement of 1898, the warlord war, and the eve of the founding of New China. Through a teahouse called Yutai, it reveals the darkness, corruption, grotesqueness and bizarreness of Chinese society in the past half century, as well as all the living beings in this society. 3. "Longxugou" describes the different experiences of four families in a small courtyard in Beijing during social changes, and shows the tremendous changes in the old and new eras. It reflects the different destinies of the Chinese people before and after liberation, embodies the central idea of the people's government for the people and the people's support and love for the party and the government. 4. "Treasure Ship" is a children's drama created by Mr. Lao She. The play praises the beautiful souls of workers who are diligent, kind, helpful, tenacious and brave, and unite and help each other. The twists and turns of the vivid story, the fantasy-rich plot, and the innocent and childish language have made this work deeply loved by young readers since its birth. 5. "Two Horses" is Lao She's early work, written in England in 1929. The novel creates a superstitious, moderate, sloppy, and lazy slave-like character, Lao Ma. His life creed is to live in peace, which is reminiscent of Lu Xun's Ah Q. The difference is that Ah Q lives in the countryside of old China, while Lao Ma is an overseas Chinese living abroad. Lao She deliberately put Lao Ma in a foreign situation to portray him. Through the life of Ma and his son in London and their interactions with the British, he looked at the differences between Eastern and Western nations, and tried to highlight the absurdity of backward national character in the context of the comparison of Chinese and Western cultures. 6. "Summer in Jinan" is a collection of classic prose by the literary master Lao She. In order to help readers better understand the essence of Lao She's works, this anthology has screened and organized some of Mr. Lao She's outstanding prose works, including "Spring Breeze", "Thinking of Peiping", "Photograph", "Looking Up to See Joy", "Spring Breeze", "Cat", "My Mother", "Qingdao in May", "Spring Festival in Beijing", "Dialogue with Jinan", "Appreciation of Baotu Spring" and other representative classic prose works by Mr. Lao She. 7. "Lao Zhang's Philosophy" describes the lives and thoughts of citizens from all walks of life in Beijing around the 1920s. The protagonist, Lao Zhang, is a rogue villain who does all kinds of evil in old Beijing. He holds three professions: soldier, scholar, and businessman, and believes in three religions: Hui, Yahya, and Buddhism; he believes in a "money-based and trinity" philosophy of life. The connotation and essence of "Lao Zhang's philosophy" is a naked philistine philosophy. 8. "Cat City" is a novel with allegory and science fiction color written by Lao She. The plane crashed on Mars, and "I" became a drifter on Mars, accidentally entering the cat city and visiting everything. "I" is like a sad reporter, recording all kinds of strange phenomena in Cat City: cat people only eat puzzle leaves, cat soldiers rush to surrender, houses in Cat City have no doors or windows, the laws of Cat Country cannot control foreigners, students in Cat School beat teachers... As Lao She said, "Cat City" is a nightmare. It records some extremely dark pages in the history of a civilization, and also reflects the desolate background of Lao She's thoughts. 9. "My Life" is a famous novella written by Mr. Lao She in 1937 on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War. The novel uses the first-person method to describe the rough life of an ordinary patrolman in the old era. Through the protagonist's experience and ideological changes, it shows the sadness of the low-level people who are unable to control their own destiny in the outdated and turbulent social background. An ordinary little person reflects the great tragedy of the era. At that time, it had "a progressive atmosphere that stood out from the times." 10. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is a classic Chinese modern novel and one of Mr. Lao She's masterpieces. After reading the whole novel, you can not only feel the unique Beijing accent and humor in Mr. Lao She's articles, but also taste the heaviness of life from his witty and humorous writing style. 11. "Xiao Po's Birthday" is a long fairy tale created by Mr. Lao She. The work takes Xiao Po, a boy living in Nanyang (that is, Singapore), and his sister as the protagonists, and tells interesting stories in Xiao Po's life. The second half of the story is entirely Xiao Po's dream, full of wild imagination, and also implies the author's ridicule of the various practical disadvantages of Nanyang. 12. "Doctor Wen" tells the story of Wen Zhiqiang, a doctor of philosophy with evil intentions and ambitions who returned to China after studying in the United States. Dr. Wen is a ruffian politician who has no knowledge but is good at power. He used the foreign brand of studying in the United States as a doctor to cheat, curry favor with the powerful, and get a job as a "commissioner" with both fame and fortune. Although he also loves money, he knows that in order to make money, he must become an official. Therefore, the philosophy of life he believes in is the two-in-one of "money standard plus official standard". Lao She used a sharp pen of ridicule and ridicule to lash out at the ugly people among the "Confucian scholars" in old China.
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