WRITER

Lao She

1899 - 1966

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Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lao She has received more than 287,421 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Lao She is the 1,148th most popular writer (down from 1,104th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from China (down from 300th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Chinese Writer.

Lao she is a form of traditional Chinese opera that is performed in the northern provinces of China. It is a form of storytelling that involves singing, dancing, and acrobatics.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Luo tuo Xiangzi
Fate and fatalism, Fiction
1962
Short stories
Social life and customs, Translations into English, China in fiction
1978
Li hun
1949
Si shi tong tang
1949
Cha guan
Drama, Translations into English, Chinese drama
1980
骆驼祥子
Fiction, Rickshaw men, Poor
First published in China in 1937, *Rickshaw Boy* is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw, Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted, time and again, in his attempts to improve his lot in life. One of the most important and popular works of twentieth-century Chinese literature, *Rickshaw Boy* is an unflinchingly honest, darkly comic look at a life on the margins of society and a searing indictment of the philosophy of individualism.
1945
Mao cheng ji
Fiction, Nineteen thirties, Fiction, humorous, general
1949
茶馆
Drama, Translations into English, Chinese drama
*Teahouse* is a 1957 play by Lao She. The play was first published in *Shouhuo* in July 1957. --- 《茶馆》是老舍于1956至1957年间创作完成的三幕话剧，1957年7月《收获》杂志创刊号上发表。《茶馆》是老舍的代表作。
1980
Short stories
Social life and customs, Translations into English, China in fiction
1978
Er Ma
Chinese fiction, 18.86 Chinese language and literature, Translations into English
1949
Si shi tong tang
Chang pian xiao shuo
1945

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lao She ranks 1,148 out of 7,302. Before him are Léon Bloy, Cornelius Gallus, Anne Rice, Antoine François Prévost, Gottfried Keller, and Vidyapati. After him are Mavro Orbini, Hugo Gernsback, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Chevalier d'Éon, Vivant Denon, and Ljudevit Gaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lao She ranks 54. Before him are Kazi Nazrul Islam, Georges Auric, Charles Boyer, Henri Michaux, P. L. Travers, and Louis Hjelmslev. After him are Lev Kuleshov, Andrei Platonov, Alma Reville, Fritz Bayerlein, Brassaï, and Ludwig Guttmann. Among people deceased in 1966, Lao She ranks 39. Before him are D. T. Suzuki, Cléo de Mérode, Ludwig Binswanger, Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Alfred Naujocks. After him are Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, Battista Farina, Siegfried Kracauer, Erwin Piscator, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec.

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In China

Among people born in China, Lao She ranks 326 out of 1,610. Before him are Princess Taiping (665), Tonyukuk (646), 12th Dalai Lama (1857), Li Zongren (1890), Emperor He of Han (79), and Li Dazhao (1889). After him are Ching Shih (1775), Princess Wencheng (628), Emperor Ai of Han (-27), Huiyuan (334), Huang Chao (801), and Emperor An of Han (94).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Lao She ranks 24. Before him are Ban Gu (32), Zhang Sanfeng (1200), Ouyang Xiu (1007), Cai Yan (177), Pu Songling (1640), and Shi Nai'an (1296). After him are Meng Haoran (690), Lu Yu (733), Bei Dao (1949), Lin Yutang (1895), Yan Fu (1854), and Sima Xiangru (-179).

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