Editing Lao She

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'''Shu Qingchun''' (3 February 1899{{snd}}24 August 1966), known by his [[pen name]] '''Lao She''', was a Chinese writer of [[Manchu]] ethnicity, known for his vivid portrayal of urban life and his colorful use of the [[Beijing dialect]], such as in the novel ''[[Rickshaw Boy]]'' and the play ''[[Teahouse (play)|Teahouse]]''. During the [[Cultural Revolution]], he was persecuted and either drowned himself or was murdered.<ref name="lee2002" /><ref name=":0" />

==Biography==
===Early life===
Lao She was born Shu Qingchun on 3 February 1899 in Beijing, to a poor [[Manchu people|Manchu]] family of the [[Šumuru|Šumuru clan]] belonging to the [[Eight Banners|Plain Red Banner]]. His father, who was a guard soldier, died in a street battle with the [[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."<ref>Lao Shê in Modern Chinese Writers, ed. by Helmut Martin and Jeffrey Kinkley, 1992</ref> In 1913, he was admitted to the Beijing Normal Third High School (now Beijing Third High School), but had to leave after several months because of financial difficulties. In the same year, he was accepted to [[Beijing Normal University]], from which he graduated in 1918.<ref name=tam>{{cite book|contribution=Introduction|author=Kwok-Kan Tam|title=駱駝祥子|page=x}}</ref>

===Career===
Between 1918 and 1924, Lao She was involved as administrator and faculty member at a number of primary and secondary schools in Beijing and [[Tianjin]]. He was highly influenced by the [[May Fourth Movement]] (1919). He stated, "The May Fourth Movement gave me a new spirit and a new [[Written vernacular Chinese|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]] (now the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]) at the [[University of London]] from 1924 to 1929, living in [[Notting Hill]] for most of that period.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/lao-she/| title = Lao She {{!}} Writer {{!}} Blue Plaques {{!}} English Heritage}} </ref> During his time in London, he absorbed a great deal of [[English literature]] (especially [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]], whom he adored) and began his own writing. His later novel ''[[Mr Ma and Son]]'', about a Chinese father and his son in London, drew on these experiences.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pfKhnQNR4wMC&pg=PR9 Witchard, ''Lao She in London'']</ref> Up until that time, he had signed his works with his [[courtesy name]] She Yu (舍予). In his first novel "Old Zhang's Philosophy" (老张的哲学 ''Lao Zhang de Zhexue''),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lyell|first=William A|title=Lao She(3 February 1899 – 25 August 1966)|journal=Dictionary of Literary Biography|series=Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949|volume=328|pages=104–122|via=Gale Literature}}</ref> first published on [[Fiction Monthly]], he first adopted the pen name Lao She. 

In the summer of 1929, he left Britain for Singapore, teaching at the [[The Chinese High School (Singapore)|Chinese High School]]. Between his return to China in the spring of 1930 until 1937, he taught at several universities, including [[Cheeloo University]] until 1934,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Birch|first=Cyril|date=1961|title=Lao She: The Humourist in his Humour|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574100000179x|journal=The China Quarterly|volume=8|pages=45–62|doi=10.1017/s030574100000179x|s2cid=154319725|issn=0305-7410}}</ref> and [[Shandong University]] ([[Qingdao]]).

Lao She was a major popularizer of humor in China, especially through his novels, his short stories and essays for journals like [[Lin Yutang]]'s "The Analects Fortnightly" (論語半月刊, ''Lunyu Banyuekan'', est. 1932), and his stage plays and other performing arts, notably [[xiangsheng]].<ref>Christopher Rea, "The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China" (California, 2015), chapter 6: "The Invention of Humor"</ref>

On 27 March 1938, [[The All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists]] 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 sponsored by the State Department, lecturing and overseeing the translation of several of his novels, including ''The Yellow Storm'' (1951) and his last novel, ''[[The Drum Singers]]'' (1952; its Chinese version was not published until 1980). 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 1940s. This action helped Rickshaw Boy become a best seller book in America.<ref>Wang, David Der-wei, ed. A New Literary History of Modern China. Cumberland: Harvard University Press, 2017. Page.580-583

Accessed 16 December 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.</ref>

===Marriage and family===

In 1930, Hu Jieqing was studying at Beijing Normal University. Hu's mother was afraid that she would delay marriage and having children because of her studies. Linguist [[Luo Changpei]] was acquainted with Hu Jieqing's brothers. Once, Lao She went to Hu's house to play, and Hu Mu asked him to play hide and seek. At this time, Lao She happened to be returning from London, and he had written works, so Luo Changpei introduced Lao She to Hu Mu. After learning about Lao She's talent and character, Hu Mu was extremely happy and privately appointed Lao She the son-in-law of Chenglong. Luo discussed together a detailed plan for Lao She and Hu Jieqing to meet. In the winter of 1930, Lao She returned to Peiping. Under Luo's arrangement, Lao She was dragged by friends everywhere to eat, and there was always Hu Jieqing at the dinner table. After frequent meetings, Hu and Lao developed affection. In the summer of 1931 that Hu Jieqing graduated, and the two held a wedding. Half a month after the marriage, Lao She brought his wife to Jinan and continued to teach at the university, while Hu Jieqing taught in a middle school. The first child of the two was born in Jinan, a girl named Shu Ji. In 1935, the second child, son Shu Yi was born. In 1937, she gave birth to his third child in Chongqing, named Shu Yu. In 1945, the young girl Shu Li was born.

===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.

==Works==
Lao She's first novel, ''[[The Philosophy of Lao Zhang]]'' was written in London (1926) and modeled on Dickens' ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'', but is set among students in Beijing.<ref>''Blades of Grass: The Stories of Lao She'' 1997 Page 307</ref> His second novel, ''[[Zhao Ziyue]]'' (1927) is set in the same Beijing milieu, but tells the story of a 26-year-old college student's quest for the trappings of fame in a corrupt bureaucracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jnGmAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 p.75]</ref> Both "The Philosophy of Lao Zhang" and "Zhao Ziyue" were Lao She's novels which expressed the native Peking lives and memories. He also wrote ''[[Crescent Moon (story)|Crescent Moon]]'' ({{lang-zh|c=月牙儿|p=Yuè Yár}}), written in the early stage of his creative life. It depicts the miserable life of a mother and daughter and their deterioration into prostitution.

In 1938, Lao She rewrote ''Classics for Girls'' to change its pre-modern characterisation of women's moral duties with messages urging women's contributions to the War of Resistance against Japan.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Xian |title=Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs |date=2025 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]] |isbn=978-0-472-05719-1 |series=China Understandings Today series |location=Ann Arbor}}</ref>{{Rp|page=133}}

=== ''Mr Ma and Son'' ===

''[[Mr. Ma and Son]]'' showed another writing style for Lao She. He described Mr. Ma and his son's life in London Chinatown, showing the poor situation of Chinese people in London. These were praised as reflecting Chinese students' experiences. Lao She used funny words to show cruel social truths.<ref>Witchard, Anne. Lao She in London. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. Introduction, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 Accessed 16 December 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.</ref> From "Mr. Ma and Son", Lao She pointed the stereotype included appearances and spirits and he hoped to get rid of these dirty impressions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vohra|first=Ranbir|title=Lao She and the Chinese Revolution. The First Novel (1924-1929).|publisher=Cambridge, Mass: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press|year=1974|isbn=0674510755|pages=38–41}}</ref>

===''Cat Country'' ===

''[[Cat Country (novel)|Cat Country]]'' is a satirical fable, sometimes seen as a Chinese science fiction novel, published in 1932 as a thinly veiled observation on China. Lao She wrote it from the perspective of a visitor to the planet Mars. The visitor encountered an ancient civilisation populated by cat-people. The civilisation had long passed its glorious peak and had undergone prolonged stagnation. The visitor observed the various responses of its citizens to the innovations by other cultures. Lao She wrote ''Cat Country'' in direct response to Japan's invasion of China (Manchuria in 1931 and Shanghai in 1932). Paradoxically, ''Cat Country'' has been considered as an artistic failure by the author himself.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=HO|first=KOON-KI TOMMY|date=1987|title=Cat Country: A Dystopian Satire|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41492507|journal=Modern Chinese Literature|volume=3|issue=1/2|pages=71–89|jstor=41492507|issn=8755-8963}}</ref>

===''Rickshaw Boy'' ===
His novel ''[[Rickshaw Boy]]'' (also known in the West as ''Camel Xiangzi'' or ''Rickshaw'') was published in 1936. It describes the tragic life of a [[Pulled rickshaw|rickshaw]]-puller in Beijing of the 1920s, and revealed the tragedy of lower classes at that time through the narration of the rickshaw boy's story. Xiangzi is a stereotype of a social phenomenon: a peasant coming to the city and then turning to an urban tramp, experiencing spiritual crises of all kinds. Not only a problem of particular historical period, it is an all-pervasive one that persists throughout Chinese history. Reading the novel today reveals more about the contemporary Chinese society than the text itself.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vandertop|first=Caitlin|date=2019-11-01|title=Peripheral Urbanism, Imperial Maturity, and the Crisis of Development in Lao She's Rickshaw and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7738542|journal=Novel|volume=52|issue=3|pages=369–385|doi=10.1215/00295132-7738542|s2cid=211660580|issn=0029-5132}}</ref> It is considered to be a classic of modern Chinese literature and a contribution to the genre of world literature about laborers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193|title=A Companion to World Literature|date=2020-01-03|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-1-118-99318-7|editor-last=Seigneurie|editor-first=Ken|edition=1|language=en|doi=10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0207|s2cid=214567984}}</ref> Moreover, it was translated into English and sold in the USA.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Saldanha|first=Gabriela|date=2011-10-14|title=Emphatic Italics in English Translations: Stylistic Failure or Motivated Stylistic Resources?|journal=Meta|volume=56|issue=2|pages=424–442|doi=10.7202/1006185ar|issn=1492-1421|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 1945, an unauthorized translation that added a [[Thomas Bowdler|bowdlerized]] [[happy ending]] to the story was published and sold. In 1982, the original version was made into a film of the same title.

=== ''Teahouse''===
''[[Teahouse (play)|Teahouse]]'' is a play in three acts, set in a teahouse called "Yu Tai" in Beijing from 1898 until the eve of the 1949 revolution. First published in 1957, the play is a social and cultural commentary on the problems, culture, and changes within China during the early twentieth century. It has been translated into many different languages.

=== Promotion of Baihua (National Language) ===
Lao She advocated the use of [[Written vernacular Chinese|Baihua]] or plain language in written Chinese. Baihua evolved a new language from classic Chinese during the [[May Fourth Movement]]. As the All-China League of Resistance Writers leader, he found he needed to abandon the use of classical Chinese for a more accessible modern style. Lao She was an early user of Baihua, and other writers and artists also adopted Baihua. Modern written Chinese is largely in the plain Baihua style.<ref>Denton, Kirk, Fulton, Bruce, and Orbaugh, Sharalyn. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Page. 311-313 Accessed 16 December 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.</ref>

=== Treasure Boat ===
"Treasure Boat" was written by Lao She in 1961. It was the only children's opera he wrote.

== Article style ==
Lao She's writing was known for its humor and irony, being simple but deep. He wrote humorous, satiric novels and short stories and, after the onset of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), patriotic and propagandistic plays and novels.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lao She {{!}} Chinese author {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lao-She|access-date=2021-11-27|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>

==Legacy==
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lao She was posthumously "rehabilitated" in 1978 and his works were republished. Several of his stories have been made into films, including ''[[This Life of Mine (1950 film)|This Life of Mine]]'' (1950, dir. by [[Shi Hui (actor)|Shi Hui]]), ''Dragon Beard Ditch'' (1952, dir. by [[Xian Qun]]), ''Rickshaw Boy'' (1982, dir. by [[Ling Zifeng]]), ''The Teahouse'' (1982, dir. by [[Xie Tian]]), ''The Crescent Moon'' (1986, dir. by [[Huo Zhuang]]), ''The Drum Singers'' (1987, dir. by [[Tian Zhuangzhuang]]), and ''The Divorce'' (1992, dir. by Wang Hao-wei). Tian Zhuangzhuang's adaptation of ''The Drum Singers'', also known as ''[[Street Players]]'', was mostly shot on location in Sichuan. Some of Lao She's plays have also been staged in the recent past, including ''Beneath the Red Banner'' in 2000 in Shanghai, and ''Dragon's Beard Ditch'' in 2009 in Beijing as part of the celebration of the writer's 110th birthday.

Lao She's former home in Beijing is preserved as the [[Lao She Memorial Hall]], opened to the public as a museum of the writer's work and life in 1999. Originally purchased in 1950, when it was 10 Fengsheng Lane, Naicifu, the address of the traditional courtyard house is now 19 Fengfu Lane. It is close to [[Wangfujing]], in [[Dongcheng District, Beijing|Dongcheng District]]. Lao She lived there until his death 16 years later. The courtyard contains persimmon trees planted by the writer. His wife called the house 'Red Persimmon Courtyard'.<ref>[http://www.beijing-kids.com/blog/Sisi-Chen/2015/10/28/The-Beijing-Bucket-List-Lao-She-Museum Lao She Museum]</ref>

The [[Lao She Literary Award]] has been given every two to three years starting in the year 2000. It is sponsored by the Lao She Literature Fund and can only be bestowed on Beijing writers.<ref>{{Citation
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The [[Laoshe Tea House]], a tourist attraction in Beijing that opened in 1988 and features regular performances of traditional music, is named after Lao She, but features primarily tourist-oriented attractions.

== Three-self principles ==
As a philosophy, the three-self principles survived in China. The People's Republic of China expelled all foreign missionaries in 1950, and in 1954 forced the Protestant churches to merge into a single body, the [[Three-Self Patriotic Movement]] of Protestant Churches in China, and break ties with foreign money, influence, and leadership. Critics charged that the movement was actually designed to train leaders in patriotism and to facilitate communication between the government and the Christian community. In 1966, as the Cultural Revolution began, public Christian worship was banned, and the Three-self Movement was disbanded. It was reorganized in 1980. Its main role is to articulate new government policies regarding religion. On a more positive note, it has helped foster the sense that the contemporary Chinese Protestant church is an indigenous body and no longer a branch of a foreign institution.<ref>{{Cite news|title=three-self principles|work=enacademmic.co|url-status=}}</ref>

Lao She's work revealed the language, the joys, and the pains of the common people of China. He believed his country and its Christianity needed to be sinicized and not dependent upon the foreigner for funds and direction.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Towery|first=Britt E.|date=January 1994|title=The Contribution of Lao She to the Three-Self Principle and the Protestant Churches of China|journal=Missiology: An International Review|volume=22|issue=1|pages=89–101|doi=10.1177/009182969402200108|s2cid=194005582|issn=0091-8296|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==Selected works in translation==

===Fiction===
* ''The Two Mas''. Translated by Kenny K. Huang & David Finkelstein. Hong Kong: Joint Publ. Co., 1984.
* ''[[Mr Ma and Son]]: Two Chinese in London''. Translated by William Dolby. Edinburgh: W. Dolby,  1987. Republished – Melbourne: Penguin Group, 2013.
* ''[[Cat Country (novel)|Cat Country]], a Satirical Novel of China in the 1930s''.(貓城記 / Mao cheng ji) Translated by William A. Lyell.  Columbus: Ohio State University Press,  1970. Reprinted – Melbourne: Penguin Group, 2013.
* ''[[Divorce (novel)|The Quest for Love of Lao Lee]]''. Translated by Helena Kuo. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,  1948.
* ''Heavensent''. Translated by Xiong Deni. London: 1951. Reprinted - Hong Kong: Joint Publ. Co., 1986.
* ''[[Rickshaw Boy]]''. (駱駝祥子 /Luo tuo Xiangzi) Translated by Evan King and Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,  1945. Unauthorized.
* ''Rickshaw''. (駱駝祥子 /Luo tuo Xiangzi) Translated by Jean James. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii,  1979.  {{ISBN|0824806166}}
* ''Camel Xiangzi'' (駱駝祥子 /Luo tuo Xiangzi) Translated by Xiaoqing Shi. Bloomington; Beijing: Indiana University Press; Foreign Languages Press,  1981.  {{ISBN|0253312965}}
* ''Rickshaw Boy: A Novel''. Translated by [[Howard Goldblatt]] New York: Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics,  2010.  {{ISBN|9780061436925}}.
* {{cite book|others=Trans. Shi Xiaojing|title=駱駝祥子|trans-title=Camel Xiangzi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uryFk9VbCK8C|access-date=8 March 2011|edition=中英對照版 [Chinese-English Bilingual]|year=2005|publisher=Chinese University Press|location=Hong Kong|language=en, zh|isbn=962-996-197-0 }}
* ''The Yellow Storm'' (also known as [[Four Generations Under One Roof]]). New York: Harcourt, Brace,  1951. Translated by [[Ida Pruitt]].
* ''The Drum Singers''. Translated by [[Helena Kuo]].  New York: Harcourt, Brace,  1952. Reprinted - Hong Kong: Joint Publ. Co., 1987.
* ''Blades of Grass the Stories of Lao She''.  Translated by William A. Lyell, Sarah Wei-ming Chen and Howard Goldblatt. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,  1999.  {{ISBN|058525009X}}
* ''Crescent Moon and Other Stories''. (月牙兒 Yue ya er) Beijing, China: Chinese Literature,  1985.  {{ISBN|0835113345}}
* ''Beneath the Red Banner''. Translated by Don J. Cohn. Beijing: Chinese Literature, 1982.

===Plays===
* ''Dragon Beard Ditch: A Play in Three Acts''. Peking: Foreign Languages Press,  1956. 
* ''Teahouse: A Play in Three Acts''. Translated by John Howard-Gibbon. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press,  1980; rpr Hong Kong, Chinese University Press. .  {{ISBN|0835113493}}

==Further reading==
* ''Chinese Writers on Writing'' featuring Lao She. Ed. [[Arthur Sze]]. ([[Trinity University (Texas)#Trinity University Press|Trinity University Press]], 2010).
* Vohra, Ranbir. ''Lao She and the Chinese Revolution''. [[Harvard University Asia Center]], 1974. Volume 55 of Harvard East Asian Monographs. {{ISBN|0674510755}}, 9780674510753.
* Rea, Christopher. ''The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China''. [[University of California Press]], 2015. {{ISBN|9780520283848}}
* Anne Veronica Witchard, ''Lao She in London'' (Hong Kong China: Hong Kong University Press, HKU,  2012). {{ISBN|9789882208803}}.
* Ch 4, "Melancholy Laughter: Farce and Melodrama in Lao She's Fiction," in Dewei Wang. ''Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China : Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen''. New York: Columbia University Press,  1992. {{ISBN|0231076568}}. Google Books: [https://books.google.com/books?id=4B5Kw0XdG0UC]
*Sascha Auerbach, "Margaret Tart, Lao She, and the Opium-Master's Wife: Race and Class among Chinese Commercial Immigrants in London and Australia, 1866–1929," ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 55, no. 1 (2013):35–64.

== Portrait ==
* [https://lib-linux2.hkbu.edu.hk/scadb/pgcw/purl.php?&did=pgcw014    Lao She. A Portrait by Kong Kai Ming] at Portrait Gallery of Chinese Writers (Hong Kong Baptist University Library).

==External links==
* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/LaoShe.htm Memorial of Victims of the Cultural Revolution, Lao She (中国文革受难者纪念馆·老舍)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320211718/http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/LaoShe.htm |date=20 March 2008 }}
* {{Books and Writers |id=laoshe |name=Lao She}}
* [http://www.ivymedia.com/ps/p1/7259.html Synopsis of the play "Teahouse."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720160348/http://www.ivymedia.com/ps/p1/7259.html |date=20 July 2019 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080729011122/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/16/content_3787351.htm Drama "Teahouse" wows American audiences] ''[[China Daily]]''. 16 November 2005.
* [http://www.londonfictions.com/lao-she-mr-ma-and-son.html Anne Witchard's article on the London Fictions website about 'Mr Ma and Son']
* [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4079336 Lao She Papers] at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

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