(1) Lao She (February 3, 1899-August 24, 1966), formerly known as Shu Qingchun, also known by his pen names Jieqing, Honglai, and Feiye, was known as Sheyu. Because Lao She was born in the spring of the lunar calendar, his parents named him "Qingchun", probably with the meaning of celebrating the coming of spring and a bright future. After going to school, he changed his name to Shu Sheyu, which means "giving up oneself", i.e. "forgetting oneself". He was a native of the Manchu Red Banner in Beijing.
(2) A modern Chinese novelist and writer, a master of language, a People's Artist, and the first writer in New China to be honored with the title of "People's Artist". His representative works include Camel Xiangzi, The House of the Four Generations, and the play The Teahouse.
(3) Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His father was a Manchu army guard who was killed in action during the Eight-Nation Alliance's attack on Beijing. The family relied on his mother's work as a laundryman to make ends meet.
(4) He graduated in 1918 and was assigned to Fangjia Hutong Elementary School as a principal. Two years later, he was promoted to a cadet in the northern suburb of the Beijing Education Bureau, but because of the difficulty of ****ing things up with the old forces in the education sector and at the local level, he soon voluntarily resigned from this well-paid position and returned to teaching at the school.
(5) In 1922, Reilly joined Christianity and later taught Chinese language at Nankai Middle School in Tianjin, and worked at the Beijing Education Association and the Beijing Local Service Corps. During this period, he was passionate about social service endeavors, and also took remedial English lessons at English evening schools and Yanjing University.
(6) In 1932, he wrote A Tale of the Cat City, which was serialized in the magazine Modern. In the following years, Lao She wrote Divorce and Moonlight, which are important in the history of modern literature.
(7) In 1936, Lao She resigned from his post as a professor at Shandong University to concentrate on writing, and in September, Camel Xiang Zi was serialized in Cosmic Winds, which was formally published in 1939 by Human Bookstore.
(8) In 1938, Lao She was elected executive director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles Against the Enemy (ACALAE) and director of the General Affairs Department, presiding over the day-to-day affairs of the association internally, representing the ACALA externally, and taking full responsibility for the leadership of the association. In July of the same year, the Association moved west to Chongqing.
Laoshe's life, always forgetting to work, he is the literary world deservedly "model worker". 1966, due to the vicious attacks and persecution in the Cultural Revolution, Laoshe was forced to unjustly sink in Beijing Taiping Lake.
In September 2017, the modern Chinese literary classic of long fiction, "The Fourth Generation", was published and listed by the Oriental Publishing Center. This is the first time the work has been published in a complete edition since its publication.
In 1939, Lao She's translation of the completed English edition of The Golden Lotus was published in London under the title The Golden Lotus, this edition is a more authoritative translation of The Golden Lotus for the West, and has been issued four times.
In 1944, the first volume of "The Togetherness of the Four Worlds", "The Terrified", was written and published by Liangyou Renaissance Printing Company.
In 1946, he was invited by the U.S. Department of State to lecture in the U.S. for one year, and in the same year, he published the second volume of "Four Times Together", "Stealing Life".