Book exhibition dedicated to Chinese writer Lao She opened in National Library

Bishkek, Feb. 6, 2019 / Kabar /. A book exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the famous Chinese novelist, writer Lao She has been opened in the Center of Chinese Culture and Literature of the National Library of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The press service of the National Library said, Lao She (real name Shu She-yu, and the middle name Shu Qingchun), is a Manchu by nationality. Coming from a soldier's family. Lao She can be called the Chinese Lomonosov. His father died during the pacification of the Yihetuan rebellion, his mother was illiterate. But the future writer and publicist managed to break into people through his own exceptional talent and hard work. Lao She graduated from the teachers' seminary. At the age of 18, he became the director of one of the Beijing schools, and a few years later went to England as a teacher. In 1924-29 he taught Chinese at the University of London. He wrote his first social novels in Great Britain (The Philosophy of the Honorable Zhang, 1926; Zhao Ziyue, 1927; Two Ma, 1928), in which he reflected the development of bourgeois relations in feudal China. After returning to his homeland, he created a satirical novel "Notes on the Feline City". The novels “Divorce” (1933), “The Camel of Xiang Tzu” (1935) and others are devoted to the fate of the little man. During the war with Japan (1937-45), he was chairman of the All-China Association of Literary and Artists in Resisting the Enemy. In the novel “The Burning” (1940), in the plays “Shreds of Fog” (1940), “The Interests of the Country Above All” (1943) and others. In 1946-1949 while in the US, he worked on the Four Generations Under One Roof trilogy about the Japanese occupation of China.

On October 13, 1949, 13 days after the proclamation of the People's Republic in China, Lao She returned from San Francisco to China. Over the next sixteen years, he wrote many plays and essays, a novella, as well as an unfinished novel “Under the Purple Chains”. He wrote a number of dramatic works, reflecting the formation of a socialist ideology in the minds of the Chinese people, and the historical drama "The Fist in the name of justice" (1961), dedicated to the Yihetuan uprising (1899-1901).

Lao Shee, one of the brightest prose writers of China in the 20th century, had a unique talent: he proved himself both as a writer, and as an educator, and as an organizer. His works were included in the golden fund of Chinese literature. The role of the writer in the creation of the modern Chinese novel and story is unusually great.

The exhibition exhibits: reference books, encyclopedias, books about the writer's work, as well as his works in Chinese.

The exhibition will run until March 3, 2019.