本书是老舍先生的代表作品，1936年在青岛写成。全书描写了从农村流落到北京城里的祥子三起三落的悲惨遭遇，讲述了在黑暗的社会环境腐蚀下，祥子怎样由一个善良、本分、富有正义感的人力车夫，在生活上、人格上一步步走向堕落，最后变得浑浑噩噩的历程。祥子的命运，是旧中国广大城市贫民悲惨命运的缩影。祥子的悲剧真实地揭示了旧社会对劳苦大众的残酷剥削，祥子令人心痛的堕落是对腐朽的旧社会的有力控诉。（The book is a representative work of Mr. Lao She and was written in Qingdao in 1936. The book depicts the miserable experience with three ups and three downs of Xiangzi who was stranded from countryside to Beijing and tells about the course that Xiangzi degenerated in life and personality step by step from a kind-hearted and honest rickshaw puller with the sense of justice and finally became ignorant under the corrosion of the dark social environment. Xiangzi’s fate is the epitome of miserable fates of the urban poor in vast cities of the old China. Xiangzi’s tragedy truly reveals the old society’s brutal exploitation of the toiling masses. Xiangzi’s heart-wrenching degeneration is a powerful accusation of the decadent old society.）