The first rickshaw in China was imported from Japan in 1874 and became the most popular way of transportation for foreigners and the wealthy Chinese. However, after the Communist party was created under Chairman Mao in 1949, the fate of the Chinese rickshaw was soon to be condemned. Under Mao’s radical reforms during the 1950s, he believed the use of rickshaws was capitalist and would send the wrong message to his Communist people; he could hardly have poor workers pulling rich bourgeoisie around in his new tightly regimented Communist country! As a result, for the past sixty odd years or so, the use of the rickshaw has been mainly confined to the cities of India where it is about to meet the second defeat in its history.