介绍:
1. From 1924 to 1929, it's a period of his life that's really important to his writing. Lao She, unlike many major Chinese writers, didn’t come from an elite background. He came from an impoverished Manchu background, so he very much made his own way in the world.
2. And the reason that he became so important to Chinese writing was that he started writing during or just after the May 4th revolutionary period, when as partof that movement, literature itself went under a revolution, which was to make it more accessible to ordinary people. And so he was responsible for developing a new type of writing called Bai Hua. He wrote in his native Peking dialect and that was what gained him initial recognition.
3. Fiction was not a genre in Chinathat was a particularly elevated or respected genre, but the novel was very important to rev the revolutionary process. It was recognized by thinkers like Liang Qichao and Hu Shi. These all come together and you know, just the fact of his traveling and his being in another culture and then feeding back into Chinese culture at the time, I think it’s quite crucial to the development of Chinese literary fiction during the 20th century.
从1924年到1929年，这是他人生中对其写作真正重要的时期。与许多主流的中国作家不同，老舍并非来自精英阶层。他出身于一个贫穷的满族背景下，所以他在很大程度上是靠自己的力量闯荡世界。
他对中国写作如此重要的原因是，他在五四革命时期或之后开始写作，当时作为该运动的一部分，文学本身经历了一场革命，即让普通人更容易接受。因此，他负责创新出一种被称作白话的新的写作类型。他用他的家乡北京方言写作，这为他赢得了最初的赞誉。
小说当时在中国并不是一个特别高大上或受人尊敬的体裁，但小说对加速革命进程非常重要。它得到了梁启超和胡适等思想家的认可。这些都结合在一起，你知道，他的旅行，在另一种文化中的浸润，然后反馈到当时的中国文化中，我认为这对20世纪中国文学小说的发展至关重要。
