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Lao She

American  
[lou shuh] / ˈlaʊ ˈʃʌ /

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
  1. Shu QingchunShu Ch'ing-ch'un, 1899–1966, Chinese novelist.


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Lao She, a writer revered in China, then banned, then “rehabilitated” and once again revered, seemed like the perfect soft-spoken, smart, brave but slightly behind narrator to tell Dee’s stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024

After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place."

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the most gifted of the newly rehabilitated writers is Lao She, a chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy.

From Time Magazine Archive