Kirjahaku

A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?'Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English - from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter - can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land.Translated by William Dolby, with an introduction by Julia Lovell

This volume is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse. Lao She's drama follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty characters drawn from all levels of society. Brought together in Yutai Teahouse, they reflect, through the changes that were taking place in Chinese society. The strength and appeal of the play lie in part in Lao She's masterful recreation of the characters and language of the streets of old Beijing, but the center of its strength is Lao She's vision, his unerring choice of significant detail, and this familiarity with the old society he is describing, with its strengths, weaknesses, and ironies. It is this which carries Teahouse beyond the borders of social criticism and makes it a complex and living work of art. Written in 1957, Teahouse bids an inspired, lingering farewell to old Beijing and the old society, despite their evils and ills, and extends a passionate welcome to the new society with its promise of freedom and equality of the people. Standing as it does between old and new China, and deeply rooted in both, Teahouse shimmers with a fine sense of ambivalence. True to its writer, to China, and to its time, it is a masterpiece of modern theater.

Odnim iz samykh izvestnykh sochinenij Lao She javljaetsja fantasticheskij roman "Zapiski o Koshachem gorode". V rezultate korablekrushenija glavnyj geroj, edinstvennyj vyzhivshij chlen ekipazha, okazyvaetsja na Marse, naselennom antropomorfnymi koshkami. Ikh tsivilizatsija, naschityvajuschaja bolee dvadtsati tysjach let, nekogda moguchaja i velichestvennaja, nyne prebyvaet v upadke. Zemljanin znakomitsja s molodymi i starymi koshkami, uchenymi, politikami i krestjanami, predprinimaet popytki perevospitat koshek, no v kontse kontsov stanovitsja svidetelem poslednikh dnej suschestvovanija Koshachego gosudarstva...Kniga javljaetsja allegoriej na kitajskoe obschestvo nachala XX veka, cherez opisanie vymyshlennogo gosudarstva Lao She kritikuet sotsialnye i politicheskie problemy Kitaja.

Rickshaw Boy är en utmärkt representant för Laoshes verk. Under bakgrunden av medborgarlivet i Peking på slutet av 1900-talet avslöjar den den mörka samhällssidan i det gamla Kina och förmedlar en djup sympati för arbetarna genom Xiangzis miserabla liv som rickshawförare.

This is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty characters drawn from all levels of society. Brought together in Yutai Teahouse, they reflect the changes that were taking place in Chinese society. The strength and appeal of the play lie in part in Lao She's masterful recreation of the characters and language of the streets of old Beijing, but the center of its strength is Lao She's vision, his unerring choice of significant detail, and his familiarity with the old society he is describing, with its strengths, weaknesses, and ironies. It is this which carries Teahouse beyond the borders of social criticism and makes it a complex and living work of art. Written in 1957, Teahouse bids an inspired, lingering farewell to old Beijing and the old society, despite their evils and ills, and extends a passionate welcome to the new society with its promise of freedom and equality of the people. Standing as it does between old and new China, and deeply rooted in both, Teahouse shimmers with a fine sense of ambivalence. True to its writer, to China, and to its time, it is a masterpiece of modern theater.

Camel Xiangzi not only marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer, but it also registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. The novel shows Lao She at his best the work of a mature writer, who excels in his mastery of narrative techniques, as well as his prophetic vision of the future of China. For this reason, it can be read as an ""epic"" of modern China.

Glavnyj geroj romana Chzhao Tszy-jue - student-bezdelnik, ego imja oznachaet "Mudrets skazal", a ego zhiznennoe kredo - eda, odezhda, zhenschiny i azartnye igry. Na primere "Mudretsa" i ego okruzhenija Lao She pokazyvaet byt i nravy pekinskogo obschestva nachala XX veka, a v osobennosti zolotoj molodezhi, kotoroj v buduschem predstoit stat chastju pravjaschej elity strany.

"Skaziteli" - roman klassika kitajskoj literatury Lao She. V tsentre dejstvija - polnaja dramaticheskikh sobytij zhizn narodnogo skazitelja Fan Baotsina i ego priemnoj docheri Sjuljan. Sjuljan dobra, talantliva i dostatochno umna, chtoby ponimat bezradostnost ugotovannoj ej sudby na samom dne chelovecheskogo obschestva. Ved ona vsego lish prodannaja doch nuzhdajuschikhsja roditelej, i pust Fan Baotsin dushi v nej ne chaet, vershina ego zaboty - pristroit talantlivuju devushku kakomu-nibud bogachu v nalozhnitsy. V inom sluchae ona obrechena torgovat soboj na ulitsakh. Tak zavedeno v mire ulichnykh artistov. Poetomu popytki Sjuljan vyrvatsja iz porochnogo kruga kazhutsja Fan Baotsinu sumasbrodnymi.Roman zanimaet osoboe mesto v tvorchestve Lao She. Mnogie personazhi, v tom chisle Fan Baotsin i Sjuljan imeli konkretnye prototipy, a v obraze pisatelja Men Ljana, druga semi Fan, netrudno raspoznat lichnost samogo avtora. Pomimo zaglavnogo romana v nastojaschuju knigu voshli povest "Moja zhizn" i izbrannye rasskazy Lao She.

"Riksha" - odin iz luchshikh romanov Lao She, schitajuschijsja klassikoj kitajskoj literatury XX veka.Izdavna po shumnym pekinskim ulitsam begali rikshi - bespravnye ljudi, nakhodjaschiesja na samoj nizhnej sotsialnoj stupeni obschestva, - vprjazhennye v povozku i razvozivshie passazhirov po gorodu. Lao She povedaet istoriju odnogo iz nikh - siroty Sjantszy po prozvischu Verbljud - prostodushnogo i chestnogo parnja, chej zavetnoj mechtoj bylo skopit dengi na sobstvennuju koljasku, chtoby obespechit sebe stabilnyj zarabotok i ni ot kogo ne zaviset. Sjantszy tseleustremlen, otkazyvaja sebe vo vsem, on rabotaet ot zari do zari chetyre goda i pochti dostigaet zavetnoj tseli, no v odin mig riksha terjaet vse...Stanet li zhelannaja mechta Sjantszy realnostju ili navsegda ostanetsja grezami o luchshej zhizni?..

"Razvod" - sotsialno-psikhologicheskij roman o pekinskikh chinovnikakh s ikh zabotami i strastjami, ob ikh serykh budnjakh s neljubimymi zhenami i robkikh mechtakh o luchshej zhizni. Lao She s ironiej opisyvaet finansovoe upravlenie, v kotorom rabotajut odni muzhchiny, gde tsarit atmosfera slukhov i intrig, a ego rabotniki, "malenkie ljudi", mnjat sebja vazhnymi personami.Chzhan Dage - melkij sluzhaschij, kotoryj slavitsja poleznymi znakomstvami, a svoej svjaschennoj missiej schitaet svatat ljudej i borotsja s razvodami. Kogda Chzhan Dage uznaet, chto kollegu Lao Li tjagotit brak, navjazannyj emu roditeljami, on vo chto by to ni stalo namerevaetsja predotvratit razvod...