Lao She Jinianguan (Former Residence of Lao She)
Hours 9am-5pm Address Fengfu Hutong 19 Location Dong Cheng Qu Transportation From Wangfujing Dajie, go west at the Crowne Plaza along Dengshikou Xi Jie to the 2nd hutong on your right. Metro: Wangfujing (118, exit A) Phone 010/6514-2612 Prices Admission ¥10 ($1.25) Frommer's Review The courtyard home of one of Beijing's best-loved writers, Lao She (1899-1966), is the most charming of many converted homes scattered around Beijing's hutong. Despite being granted this home by Zhou Enlai in 1950, the writer refused to become a cheerleader for the regime, and his post-revolution years were remarkably quiet for such a prolific writer. He recently came in at no. 5 in an online survey of "China's leading cultural icons," ahead of pop diva Wang Faye but well behind the no. 1 choice, the iconoclastic writer Lu Xun (who has a memorial hall in the west of town, see chapter 8). Lao She is renowned for the novel Rickshaw (Luotuo Xiangzi), a darkly humorous tale of a hardworking rickshaw puller, Happy Boy. Start in Hall 3, to the right, which records his early years in London, the United States, and Shandong Province. Hall 2 is an attempt to re-create the mood of his original study and sitting room, with his personal library untouched and his desk calendar left open at the day of his disappearance -- August 24, 1966. While the date of his death is certain, the details are murky. The official line has him committing a poetic suicide in nearby Taiping Hu (pictured in Hall 1) after enduring a "struggle session" at Kong Miao. It's possible that he was simply murdered by Red Guards.
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