 His novel "Rickshaw Boy" (also known in the West as "Camel Xiangzi" or "Rickshaw") was published in 1936.It describes the tragic life of a rickshaw puller in Beijing of the 1920s and is considered to be a classic of modern Chinese literature.The English version "Rickshaw Boy" became a US bestseller in 1945; it was an unauthorized translation that added a bowdlerized happy ending to the story.