Father and Son Surnamed Ma

Father and Son Surnamed Ma is an early work of Lao She, written in England in 1929. The novel portrays a superstitious, modest, sloppy, and lazy slave-like character, Lao Ma. His life creed is to live by life, which is reminiscent of Ah Q in Lu Xun's works. The difference is that Ah Q lives in the countryside of old China, while Lao Ma is an overseas Chinese who lives abroad. Lao She deliberately ...