false 315737 0824806557 9780824806552 48 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173706062m/315737.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315737.Rickshaw_The_Novel_Lo_t_o_Hsiang_Tzu 106233 She Lao 71 5 5 0 false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Mar 25 18:52:10 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 15:30:33 -0800 2008 The Grapes of Wrath set in Beijing, but without the stratospheric commentary from Steinbeck's godlike narrator. Rickshaw is, as the forward points out, the social realist work the Socialists of the 1930s wanted to write but never did. It's a stark and muscular read as well as a great introduction to Chinese culture and literature of the Republic between the two world wars. (If I were to teach economics, I'd have my class read this and Mildred Pierce as clearheaded rebuttals to the dismal science.) Be sure to pick up this translation and not the earlier one which changes the ending to something more palatable for us running dog capitalists.]]>