Editing Lao She (section)

===Death===
Like numerous other intellectuals in China, Lao She experienced mistreatment when the [[Cultural Revolution]] began in 1966. Condemned as a counterrevolutionary, he was paraded and [[Struggle session|struggled]] by the [[Red Guards]] through the streets and beaten publicly at the door steps of the [[Beijing Temple of Confucius|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 (Beijing)|Taiping Lake]] on 24 August 1966. [[Leo Ou-fan Lee]] mentioned the possibility that Lao She was murdered.<ref name=lee2002>{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Leo Ou-Fan|editor=Merle Goldman & Leo Ou-Fan Lee|title=An Intellectual History of Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KeE7dMNyl8C&pg=PA226|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, UK|isbn=0-521-79710-1|page=226}}</ref> However, no reliable information has emerged to verify definitively the actual circumstances of Lao's death.<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=http://www.scmp.com/article/358800/mystery-lao-she | title=The mystery of Lao She | date=27 September 2001 }}</ref> 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.