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Lao She, the Glossary

Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist.^[1]

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1966 suicides
20th-century Chinese dramatists and playwrights
Academic staff of Shandong University
Chinese dramatists and playwrights
Dramatists of Chinese opera
Manchu Plain Red Bannermen
Members of the 4th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Persecution of intellectuals in China
Suicides by drowning in China
Suicides during the Cultural Revolution

All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists

The National Resistance Association of Literary and Art Workers was an organization founded on 27 March 1938 to unite cultural workers in China against the Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze (born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor.

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Šumuru

Šumuru (Manchu) was one of the eight great clans of Manchu nobility (满清八大姓).

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Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery

The Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery is Beijing's main resting place for the highest-ranking revolutionary heroes, high government officials and, in recent years, individuals deemed of major importance due to their contributions to society.

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Beijing dialect

The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.

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Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University (BNU; p) is a public university in Beijing, China.

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Beijing Temple of Confucius

Beijing Temple of Confucius is the second-largest Confucian temple in China, after the one in Confucius's hometown of Qufu.

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Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".

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Cat Country

Cat Country (also translated as City of Cats) is a dystopian satirical novel by Chinese writer Lao She (1899–1966), first published in 1933.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Cheeloo University

Cheeloo University (alternatively known as "Shantung Christian College") was a university in China, established by Hunter Corbett American Presbyterian, and other English Baptist, Anglican, and Canadian Presbyterian mission agencies in early 1900 in China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China Daily

China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Chinese literature

The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age.

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Courtesy name

A courtesy name, also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Divorce (novel)

Divorce is a 1933 Chinese novel by Lao She, written in Chongqing, the temporary Chinese capital during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Dongcheng, Beijing

Dongcheng is a district of the city of Beijing.

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The Eight Banners (in Manchu: jakūn gūsa,, ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed.

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Eight-Nation Alliance

The Eight-Nation Alliance was a multinational military coalition that invaded northern China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, with the stated aim of relieving the foreign legations in Beijing, which was being besieged by the popular Boxer militiamen, who were determined to remove foreign imperialism in China.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Fiction Monthly

The Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo Yuebao; Original English title: The Short Story Magazine) was a Chinese literary journal published by the Commercial Press in Shanghai.

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Four Generations Under One Roof

Four Generations Under One Roof (四世同堂 Sì Shì Tóng Táng) is a 1944 novel by Lao She describing the life of the Chinese people during the Japanese Occupation.

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Happy ending

A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which there is a positive outcome for the protagonist or protagonists, and in which this is to be considered a favourable outcome.

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Harvard University Asia Center

The Harvard University Asia Center is an interdisciplinary research and education unit of Harvard University, established on July 1, 1997, with the goal of "driving varied programs focusing on international relations in Asia and comparative studies of Asian countries and regions (...) and supplementing other Asia-related programs and institutes and the University and providing a focal point for interaction and exchange on topics of common interest for the Harvard community and Asian intellectual, political, and business circles," according to its charter.

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Helena Kuo

Kuo Ching-ch'iu (1911 – April 25, 1999), also known as Helena Kuo, was a Chinese-American writer and translator.

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Howard Goldblatt

Howard Goldblatt (born 1939) is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese (mainland China & Taiwan) fiction, including The Taste of Apples by Huang Chunming and The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi.

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Hu Jieqing

Hu Jieqing (December 23, 1905 - May 21, 2001) was a contemporary Chinese painter who descended from the Manchu people.

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Ida Pruitt

Ida C. Pruitt (1888–1985) was a China-born American social worker, author, speaker, interpreter and activist in Sino-American understanding.

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Lao She Literary Award

The Lao She Literary Award (Lao She wenxue jiang 老舍文学奖) is named after the Chinese novelist Lao She, a writer and activist of 20th-century Chinese literature.

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Lao Zhang's Philosophy

Lao Zhang's Philosophy is the 1926 debut novel of Chinese author Lao She, written while Lao She was teaching at London University's School of Oriental Studies (SOS).

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Leo Ou-fan Lee

Leo Ou-fan Lee (born 10 October 1942) is a Chinese commentator and author who was elected Fellow of Academia Sinica in 2002.

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Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. Lao She and lin Yutang are 20th-century Chinese novelists.

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Ling Zifeng

Ling Zifeng (Beijing, 10 March 1917 – 3 March 1999) was a Chinese film director.

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Luo Changpei

Luo Changpei (9 August 1899 – 13 December 1958) was a Chinese linguist. Lao She and Luo Changpei are Manchu people and writers from Beijing.

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Manchu people

The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.

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May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.

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Mr Ma and Son

Mr Ma and Son (simplified Chinese: 二马; traditional Chinese: 二馬; pinyin: Ėrmǎ; literally: "The Two Mas" or "Ma and Son") is a satirical novel written by Chinese author Lao She, first serialized in 1929 in the journal Fiction Monthly.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, is the third novel by Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839.

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Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist.

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Pen name

A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.

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Pulled rickshaw

A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese) is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qingdao

Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.

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Red Guards

The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Rickshaw Boy

Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man.

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Shandong University

Shandong University (SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. The oldest of Shandong University's precursor institutions, Cheeloo University, was founded by American and English mission agencies in the late 19th century (as Tengchow College of Liberal Arts in Penglai).

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Shi Hui (actor)

Shi Hui (1915 – December 1957), born Shi Yutao, was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Lao She and Shi Hui (actor) are Suicides by drowning in China.

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SOAS University of London

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London.

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Struggle session

Struggle sessions, or denunciation rallies or struggle meetings, were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being "class enemies" were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured, sometimes to death, often by people with whom they were close.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_She

Also known as Lao Sheh, Laoshe, Lau Shaw, She Lao, Shu Ch'ing-ch'un, Shu Qingchun, Shu She-yü, Shu She-yue, Shu Sheyu.

, SOAS University of London, Struggle session, Teahouse (play), The Chinese High School (Singapore), This Life of Mine (1950 film), Thomas Bowdler, Three-Self Patriotic Movement, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Tianjin, University of California Press, University of London, Wangfujing, Written vernacular Chinese, Xiangsheng, Xie Tian, Zhao Ziyue.

Lao She, the Glossary

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1966 suicides

20th-century Chinese dramatists and playwrights

Academic staff of Shandong University

Chinese dramatists and playwrights

Dramatists of Chinese opera

Members of the 4th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Persecution of intellectuals in China

Suicides by drowning in China

Suicides during the Cultural Revolution

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