Rickshaw Boy
Cover of a copy of Rickshaw Boy, scan from the National Library of China | |
| Author | Lao She |
|---|---|
| Language | Chinese |
| Published | 1937 |
| Publication place | China |
| Rickshaw Boy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
"Rickshaw Boy ("Luotuo xiangzi") in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 駱駝祥子 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 骆驼祥子 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Camel the Auspicious Lad" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=link}
Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi (Chinese: 骆驼祥子; pinyin: Luòtuo Xiángzi; lit. 'Camel Auspicious Lad') is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. It is considered a classic of 20th-century Chinese literature.