Tea House (lao She Illustrated Edition Classic Drama)
by Lao She Illustrations By Teng Chengyu
About This Novel
The three-act play "Teahouse" is a classic in the history of Chinese drama. The story in the play all takes place in a teahouse, with sixty or seventy characters appearing one after another. The three-act play respectively shows the life scenes in three eras after the failed coup of 1898 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 summarizes the sharp opposition and conflicts between all classes of Chinese society and reveals the historical destiny of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China. The lines of the characters in the play are vivid, expressive, full of personality, concise and concise, with profound meaning. It is still a standing repertoire of modern theaters.
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