Huang Hui & Hu Rong 
Ministry-Compiled Reading Book Series 
Rickshaw Boy

Rickshaw Boy is one of the masterpieces of Lao She and an important achievement in the history of modern literature. Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy (Attached with Ministry-Compiled Ability Training Manual for Grade 7)/ Reading Series Designated for Chinese Textbook of Junior Middle School Newly Edited by the Ministry of Education mainly tells the bitter story of the rickshaw boy, Xiangzi, in the Beijing in the Republic of China. With the "three ups and downs" in Xiangzi’s rickshaw purchasing process as the central clue of plot development, the book shows Xiangzi’s life course from hope to disappointment, from struggle to failure, from struggle to despair, and finally to decadence and degeneration, profoundly exposes the darkness of old China, accuses the ruling class’s exploitation and oppression of the labors, and expresses the author’s deep sympathy for the laboring people.