Lao She

Name: Lao She
Native name: 老舍
Also Known as: Shu Qingchun, 舒庆春, She Yu, 舍予, Lau Shaw, 舒慶春, Shu Qing Chun
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Born: February 3, 1899
Died: August 24, 1966

Lao She was a Chinese novelist and dramatist.

He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature and is best known for his novel "Rickshaw Boy" and the play "Teahouse" (茶館). Lao She was a major popularizer of humor writing in China, especially through his novels, his short stories and essays for journals, and his stage plays and other performing arts, notably xiangsheng.

Lao She experienced mistreatment when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966. Condemned as a counterrevolutionary, he was paraded by the Red Guards through the streets and beaten publicly at the doorsteps of the Temple of Confucius in Beijing. According to the official record, this abuse left Lao She greatly humiliated both mentally and physically, and he committed suicide by drowning himself in Beijing's Taiping Lake on 24 August 1966.

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Year	Title	Type	Rating
2016	Mr. No Problem	Movie	6.5
2010	Tea House	Drama	7.7
2010	Black and White Lee	Movie	0.0
2009	New Four Generations Living Together	Drama	7.4
2006	The Moon and the Sunshine	Drama	10.0
2001	Wo Zhe Yi Bei Zi	Drama	0.0
1999	Father and Son of the Ma Family	Drama	0.0
1999	Divorce	Drama	4.0
1992	Divorce	Movie	0.0
1987	The Street Players	Movie	0.0
1986	Crescent Moon	Movie	0.0
1985	Four Generations Living Together	Drama	0.0
1982	Rickshaw Boy	Movie	7.3
1982	The Teahouse	Movie	8.0
1962	What Price Love	Movie	0.0
1952	Long Xu Gou	Movie	0.0
1952	Fang Zhenzhu	Movie	0.0
1950	This Life of Mine	Movie	8.0