LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:11 November 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Lao She’s Teahouse Act 3 and Rickshaw Boy:
The Role of Women

Selvi Bunce


Lao She

Lao She was born and raised in a time of great change and turmoil in China. Born to a poor Manchu family at the end of the Qing dynasty, and losing his father in battle, Lao She experienced many hardships as a child. Growing up as the Qing were falling down, one of the greatest threats to Lao She’s livelihood were the “foreigners”- the European, American, and Japanese armies that confiscated Chinese land, goods, and terrorized its people. This ultimately embedded negative feelings towards foreign forces in Lao She, which come out in his writing.

Life in Beijing

Furthermore, Lao She lived and worked in Beijing during the May Fourth Movement and was highly influenced by it. After growing up in poverty and overcoming numerous barriers to obtain an education, Lao She finally found a movement he could get behind – one that targeted China’s greatest problems: individualism and lack of attention to the poor. The spirit of the May Fourth Movement can be detected throughout Lao She’s prose and his\ writing would not be the same without it.

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