| February 3 will witness the 102-year
birthday of Lao She, "the people's artist" in China. To
commemorate this great man of letters, Beijing Lao She Art and Culture
Foundation will from now on kick off a serial of movie show of Lao
She's works, and it will last till the mid-February.
Nurtured in an ambience of Beijing culture, the classical works
of Lao She have been highly valued both in east and west. And aside
from that eight pieces of his works were adapted into movies, the
most numerous among the masters of Chinese literature in the 20th
century.
The artist showed his great sympathy toward the people living at
the bottom of the society in old China and devoted much of his efforts
to describing their sufferings, which finally turned out to be the
paragon in the art world of movies and in Chinese literature.
During the movie show, the black and white films, such as "This
Life of Mine", "Dragon Whiskers Ditch", and the colored
ones like the "Rickshaw Boy", "The Teahouse",
the "Crescent Moon", the "Drum Singers" and
"The Divorce" will be put on show.
| Lao She, who died in August 1966, is one of the
most important writers in China's Literary history. He had gained
a great reputation both in China and foreign countries by creating
the literary style of describing the life of common people using
concise Beijing dialect. His representative work include Teahouse,
Divorce, Yueya'er, etc |
(People's Daily 01/16/01) |
