#lao she

[fidjiefidjie]

“Le ciel ne s'éclaircit pas tant que le tonnerre se fait entendre.”

Lao She

Gif Giphy

[emozional-mente]

Le persone insignificanti

amano che i loro atti

siano rumorosi

Lao She

[1homme2terre]

Un homme qui se connaît bien est nécessairement modeste.

Lao She

[bajinthings]

Salát Gergely: Jajavszkij – az első kínai disztópia - 1749

Salát Gergely írása az első kínai disztópiáról, a Macskaváros krónikája című regényről.

Mondjuk, a Tigris kisasszony meg a férjétől azóta is ptsd-m van, de a Macskaváros elég jó! Meg természetesen a Teaház is, amiről itt most éppen nincs említés.

[straycat-writes]

Before Lao She became the phantom thieves' getaway driver, he was a street racer participating in illegal street racing before one nearly cost Lao his life when he crashed.

Sfsghjk I know this is supposed to be a serious pitch of potential character exposition but I just can’t help but imagine Lao She participating in illegal street racing with his rickshaw of all things and I’m- 😂😂 An ordinary-looking rickshaw in the midst of expensive sports cars, people laugh at first, then scoff when they realize it’s not a joke, and are left with wide eyes and gaping mouths when it leaves everyone in the dust. 

Lao She has never once lost a race in his life. At least, he hadn’t until he crashed.

[fabby-book-blog]

JOMP August Photo Challenge - August 11

Theme: Traitor

Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy is a book that I read in college that has stayed with me and it wasn’t even for an actual literature class. 

To summarize, Xiangzi is just a dude who wants to own his own rickshaw cart and make a living off that, but life, society, and people in general just keep betraying him-- hence traitors. 

Published in 1936 China, this was definitely a piece of work that met with some controversy. Lao She was also a victim of political persecution which would eventually lead to his suicide in 1966. Now considered a classic piece of 20th-century Chinese literature. 

[sinetheta]

Teahouse (茶館) by Lao She (老舍). dir. Meng Jinghui (孟京辉). 2019.

Widely considered to be one of the most representative works of 20th century Chinese theatre, Teahouse takes as its setting Beijing’s Yutai Teahouse, following its characters through the turmoil of the last five years of the Qing Dynasty and illustrating both the sociopolitical struggles of the times as well as the age-old clash between the old and the new.

Meng Jinghui’s production was recently performed in Avignon, France. A daring avant-garde take on Lao She’s Teahouse, Meng used high-tech stage design and contemporary music — including Chinese rap and techno music — in order to breathe new life into Lao She’s 1957 classic. The stage’s centerpiece, a rotating steel wheel over ten meters high, replaces the play’s traditional teahouse architecture — the turning of the wheel represents the fate of the play’s characters, destined to be worn down as history repeats itself both in their lives and in the tumultuous country around them. 

Meng later drew a parallel between the play’s conflicting, individualistic characters and the recent government crackdowns on film and theater censorship, adding in an interview with the Agence France-Presse, “Artists are like children – they need to express themselves. There is always relative freedom, sometimes it opens up, sometimes it closes again. But we’ll get there.”

(Picture credit: Xinhua)

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[1homme2terre]

"Tant qu'on ose se battre, même si on essuie des échecs, on est digne de respect."

Lao She