Book · 1937 · Fiction
Rickshaw Boy
Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics (HarperCollins) · 320 pages
★ 6.2 editorial score
Xiangzi pulls a rented rickshaw through 1920s Beijing and wants a cart of his own. Soldiers seize the first he buys, a policeman takes his savings, and Lao She grinds him to nothing.



