Teahouse (unabridged Classic Full Version)
by Lao She
About This Novel
This book includes Lao She's famous plays "Teahouse" and "Longxugou" and more than a dozen classic essays. "Teahouse" is structured into three acts. It takes the rise and fall of a large teahouse called Yutai in old Beijing as the background, and shows the social landscape of Beijing and the life changes of different people from all walks of life in the nearly 50 years from the late Qing Dynasty to the Beiyang Warlord period and then to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Each scene depicts an era. People from all walks of life in Beijing, from all walks of life, come in and out of this big teahouse. The whole play shows a series of magnificent historical pictures, which vividly illustrates the inevitable demise of the old China and the inevitability of the birth of the new China.
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