Camel Xiangzi is a novel written by Lao She (Shu Qingchun), a people's artist, which describes the tragic fate of rickshaw pullers in the warlord melee in the 1920s. Xiangzi was a representative of the working people in the old society.

Xiangzi comes from the countryside. Xiangzi, who came to the city from the countryside, is eager to create a new life with his honest labor. Being an independent laborer is Xiangzi's wish, hope and even religion. He chose to pull a rickshaw, which shows that although he left the countryside, his way of thinking is still the way of thinking of farmers. With hard work and perseverance, he spent three years scrimping and saving, and finally realized his dream and became a driver.

Xiangzi, teased by life, started playing games, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In order to drink, Xiangzi cheated money everywhere and eventually became "urban garbage", earning a living by giving people weddings and funerals and doing odd jobs. A hardworking and kind-hearted rural youth has been tortured by society, reality and life into a walking property vagrant.

Eighteen-year-old tall and strong foreign coachman. For the soul of this book. Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality, and he has many excellent qualities of working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has camel-like enthusiasm and tenacious spirit for life, but he is also unreasonable, full of lies, good at taking advantage and selling his life. It seems that he can tolerate all grievances at ordinary times, but there is also a need to resist in his character. He has always been strong, struggling and uneasy about his humble social status.

The background world in Camel Xiangzi is a dark, deformed and unbalanced old society in China. People live in poverty, and Xiangzi is only the representative of the working people. Although they have some freedom, they have to make a living, and poverty deprives them of what little freedom they have.