Editing Pulled rickshaw (section)

==Books, films, television, music and modern art==
[[File:Rickshaw 01.jpg|thumb|250px|Rickshaw in a museum in Japan]]
* An early [[Rudyard Kipling]] story has the title ''[[The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales|The Phantom Rickshaw]]'' (1885). In it a young Englishman has a romance aboard a ship bound for India. He ends the affair and becomes engaged to another woman, causing his original love to die of a broken heart. After that, on excursions around the city of [[Shimla|Simla]], he frequently sees the ghost of the deceased driving around in her yellow-panelled rickshaw, though nobody else seems to notice the phenomenon.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www.online-literature.com/keats/3790/ | title=The Phantom Rickshaw | publisher=Online Literature | access-date=13 April 2013}}</ref>
* The 1936 novel ''[[Rickshaw Boy]]'' is a novel by the Chinese author [[Lao She]] about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. The English version ''Rickshaw Boy'' became a U.S. bestseller in 1945. It was an unauthorized translation that added a [[happy ending]] to the story. In 1982, the original version was made into a film of the same title.<ref>{{ cite book | title=Rickshaw Boy: A Novel | location=New York | publisher=Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics | year=2010 |translator-last=Goldblatt |translator-first=Howard |translator-link=Howard Goldblatt | isbn=9780061436925 }}</ref>
* In the 1940s, [[Eddy Howard]] recorded a song called ''The Rickety Rickshaw Man''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Most Played Juke Box Records |magazine=The Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |date=25 January 1947 |volume=59 |issue=4 |page=24}}</ref>
* The 1958 Japanese movie ''Muhomatsu no issho'' (''[[Rickshaw Man]]'') by [[Hiroshi Inagaki]] tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.
* The 1953 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Do Bigha Zameen]]'', directed by [[Bimal Roy]], describes the fate of an impoverished farmer who becomes a rickshaw puller in [[Kolkata]].
* In the 1992 film ''[[City of Joy (film)|City of Joy]]'' (whose title refers to Kolkata), [[Om Puri]] plays a rickshaw puller, revealing the economic and emotional hardship that these underpaid workers face on a day-to-day basis.
* In [[Pearl S. Buck]]'s 1931 novel ''[[The Good Earth]]'', hero Wang Lung leaves his land to travel southward during a drought.  He ends up in the city of Kiangsu ([[Jiangsu]]), where he becomes a rickshaw puller in order to support his family.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Good Earth | author=Pearl S. Buck | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=2004 | edition=reprint | isbn=0743272935 | url=https://archive.org/details/goodearthoprahsb00pear }}</ref>
* In the 1998 ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "[[The Bookstore]]", Kramer and Newman decide to start a rickshaw business with homeless people being trained to carry passengers.