Teahouse (illustrated by Ye Qianyu)
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Teahouse" is one of the masterpieces of "People's Artist" Mr. Lao She and a classic in the history of Chinese drama. The story in the play all takes place in a teahouse. People come and go in the teahouse, and people of all colors and religions gather together. A big teahouse is like a small society. Mr. Lao She captured the characteristics of this scene and highly condensed sixty or seventy main and secondary characters in a half-century time span into the teahouse, showing life scenes in three eras after the failure of the 1898 Coup in the late Qing Dynasty, the period of the Beiyang warlord separatism in the early years of the Republic of China, and the eve of the fall of the Kuomintang regime. It summarized the sharp opposition and conflicts between various classes and forces in Chinese society, and revealed the historical destiny of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China.
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