Camel Xiangzi (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Shu Qingchun
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: Beijing, China
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: Values, Politics, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Ethics, Ambition, Success or failure, Work or workers, China or Chinese people
- Locales: Beijing, China
Characters Discussed
Hsiang-tzu, a Beijing rickshaw puller born and reared in the countryside. Self-confident, brawny, and hardworking, the twenty-year-old orphan enthusiastically adopts the colorful capital of northern China as his lifelong home. Although he pulls rickshaws with exemplary zeal and skill, his rural naïveté and his low position in the social class structure combine to bring him one misfortune after another. Having lost his wife during a breech childbirth and, subsequently, his fiancée through suicide, and having seen his hard-earned life savings repeatedly...
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