Lau She (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. page edges a little dirty. book cover very worn, Size: 8vo - 7.75" - 9.75" tall. Used.

Oversized Paperback. Unpaginated [approximately 64 pages]. illustrations. 10 x 10 inches in wraps. Text in Chinese and English. Quotes about the play, biographies of all involved with the production, synopsis, index of acts with summaries. Cast with biographies, history of the play. American tour performance October-December, 2005, Washington D.C., Berkeley, Houston, Los Angeles, New York. One copy in OCLC as of July, 2016.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 306 Pp. Grey Cloth, Spine Lettered In Dark Blue. First Edition Stated. Light Usage, But First Front Free Endpaper Has Been Torn Away, And There Are Two Tape Marks Each On The Flaps On The Pastedowns. Dust Jacket Priced $3.00, Slight Fading And Browning. Per Wikipedia, Shu Qingchun (1899 -1966), Aka Lao She And In English Lau Shaw, Lao Shuh And S. Y. Shu, Was A Chinese Novelist And Dramatist, Was One Of The Most Significant Figures Of 20Th-Century Chinese Literature. Lao She Was Born Shu Qingchun (舒慶春) In 1899 In Beijing, To A Poor Manchu Family Of The Šumuru Clan Belonging To The Plain Red Banner. His Father Died In A Street Battle With The (European) Eight-Nation Alliance Forces In The Course Of The Boxer Rebellion Events In 1901. "During My Childhood," Lao She Later Recalled, "I Didn't Need To Hear Stories About Evil Ogres Eating Children And So Forth; The Foreign Devils My Mother Told Me About Were More Barbaric And Cruel Than Any Fairy Tale Ogre With A Huge Mouth And Great Fangs. And Fairy Tales Are Only Fairy Tales, Whereas My Mother's Stories Were 100 Percent Factual, And They Directly Affected Our Whole Family." In 1913, He Was Accepted To Beijing Normal University, From Which He Graduated In 1918. Between 1918 And 1924, Lao She Was Involved As Administrator And Faculty Member At A Number Of Primary And Secondary Schools. He Was Highly Influenced By The May Fourth Movement (1919), Which " Gave Me A New Spirit And A New Literary Language. I Am Grateful To [The] May Fourth [Movement], As It Allowed Me To Become A Writer." He Went On To Serve As Lecturer In The Chinese Section Of The School Of Oriental Studies At The University Of London From 1924 To 1929. During His Time In London, He Absorbed A Great Deal Of English Literature (Especially Dickens, Whom He Adored) And Began His Own Writing. In The Summer Of 1929, He Left Britain For Singapore, Teaching At The Chinese High School. Between His Return To China In The Spring Of 1930 Until 1937, He Taught At Several Universities, Including Cheeloo University And Shandong University (Qingdao). Lao She Was A Major Popularizer Of Humor Writing In China, Especially Through His Novels, His Short Stories And Essays For Journals Like Lin Yutang's The Analects Fortnightly (Lunyu Banyuekan, Est. 1932), And His Stage Plays And Other Performing Arts, Notably Xiangsheng.On 27 March 1938, The All-China Resistance Association Of Writers And Artists (中华全国文艺界抗敌协会) Was Established With Lao She As Its Leader. The Purpose Of This Organization Was To Unite Cultural Workers Against The Japanese, And Lao She Was A Respected Novelist Who Had Remained Neutral During The Ideological Discussions Between Various Literary Groups In The Preceding Years. In March 1946, Lao She Travelled To The United States On A Two-Year Cultural Grant, Lecturing And Overseeing The Translation Of Several Of His Novels. He Stayed In The Us From 1946 Until December 1949. During Lao She's Traveling, His Friend, Pearl S. Buck, And Her Husband, Had Served As Sponsors And They Helped Lao She Live In The U.S. After The People's Republic Of China Was Established, Lao She Rejected Buck's Advice To Stay In America And Came Back To China. Rickshaw Boy Was Translated By Buck In The Early 1940'S. Lao She Was Married To Painter Hu Jieqing; Together They Had A Son And Three Daughters. During The Cultural Revolution, He Was Condemned As A Counterrevolutionary, Paraded By The Red Guards Through The Streets And Beaten Publicly At The Door Steps 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. His Relatives Were Accused Of Implication In His "Crimes", But Rescued His Manuscripts After His Death, Hiding Them In Coal Piles And A Chimney And Moving Them From House To House. Lao She Advocated The Use Of Baihua, The Use Of Plain Language In Written Chinese.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing (1951).Physical Format: Octavo (approx. 22 cm), 533 pages. Bound in its original green textured cloth boards with gilt-stamped typography on the spine. Key Contributors: Written by celebrated Chinese author Lau Shaw (Lao She), translated into English by Ida Pruitt, and published in London by Victor Gollancz Ltd. Set in Beijing during the Japanese occupation of World War II, the novel follows the interconnected lives, struggles, and shifting loyalties of six households living on a street called "The Little Sheep Fold". Through the lens of these families—ranging from staunch resisters to desperate collaborators—the story provides a powerful psychological and social chronicle of a nation undergoing a painful, slow awakening while enduring starvation, betrayal, and wartime austerity. It stands as a monumental masterpiece of 20th-century Chinese literature. The inner joints show signs of strain, with some exposure of the netting/mesh beneath the paper on the inner hinge of the title page spread. However, the binding remains intact and is not detached. All images are photographed in natural light, no lights used to enhance colour or diminish shadows. Registered postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unread book. DJ in archival cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stFRedn of 1959 chin 1stedn; tall 12mo illuswraps, french flaps, a little tired, [12 x 22, broché, couverture à rabats, bon état (couverture défraîchie). Ow VG: 175pp, bw illus, chin/fr opposed text, cover illus of Lao She in profile, chin title to fntcvr = Quan jia fu 全家福 Bilingue français-chinois; traduction par l'Université de Paris/1973 ; stage play in three acts and seven scenes, set in Peking 1958; chin title= every family prospers, sets forth a rose colored view of the great leap policies; ironically the author committed suicide as an enemy of the people in the cultural revolution in 1966; engl tsl as Teahouse: A Play in Three Acts She, Lao Published by Foreign Languages Press, 1980, but without the chin text.…

Boards. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, original green cloth boards with gilt-stamped author and title to spine, pp 533. Scattered light foxing to the outside edge of the text block, corners lightly bumped. Small bookseller ticket to the front endpaper, otherwise clean. Near-fine condition. Novel set in a village in China in a street called "The Little Sheep Fold", following the lives and fortunes of the people of six households. Includes the government and the war with Japan. "This is the story of the people of that street, from old man Chi, whose compound housed four generations representing various facets of Chinese reaction to the "yellow storm" - to Kuan who, with his second wife, chose the road of collaboration with the enemy, even to betrayal of his neighbor Chien [.] Some of the youths chose escape into the Chinese army; others preferred the red banner; others cowered in relatively safe and innocuous jobs. There is a sense of life pushed but still going on, despite death and betrayal and black markets and austrerity programs." (Kerkus Reviews, 1951.) Shu Qingchun (1899 ? 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He is best known for his novels "Rickshaw Boy", "Mr Ma and Son" (set in London), and the satirical "Cat Country". The present book, "The Yellow Storm". is a scarce novel by a major figure in Chinese literature, and this copy is in near fine condition. Translated from the Chinese by Ida Pruitt (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ohio State University Press, 1970, 1970 First dition. Small octavo, 19.9*13.2cm, xliv,295pp. Original dustjacket price-clipped, with a couple of nicks, creases and small tears, otherwise a fine hardcover. Translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by William A. Lyell, Jr. 1st Edition. Very Good/Good.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Dust jacket in rough shape, please see pictures. The product is a vintage first edition hardcover book titled "The Yellow Storm" by authors S Y Shu, Lau Shaw, and She Lau. Originally written in Chinese, the book was translated into English by Ida Pruitt and published by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1951. It falls under the genre of cultural history and focuses on national history, specifically delving into Chinese culture and history during the 20th century. The book includes features such as a dust jacket and is set in Beijing, China, making it a valuable addition to any collection of cultural history literature.; 1st edition thus; 10.00 x 8.00 x 4.00.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Peiping / Peking: North China Union Language School, 1932, 1932 First edition. Thin 12mo, 21.6*14.8cm, 22 pp. Front and back cover chipped around the edges. Text in English. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Amsterdam: Corvey, 1948, 1948 First edition. Small octavo, 21.5*15cm, 24pp. 24-page text in sewn binding housed in its original portfolio. Some foxing to portfolio, otherwise a very good copy with clean pages. Text in DUTCH. Extremely rare. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. No Binding. Good.…