Teahouse
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Teahouse" is the title of a Chinese drama, one of Mr. Lao She's masterpieces. The story in the play all takes place in a teahouse in Beijing. 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 concentrated the fifty-seven main and secondary characters in the teahouse over a half-century time span, showing three periods after the failure of the Reform Movement 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. The modern life scenes summarize the sharp opposition and conflicts between various classes and forces in Chinese society, and reveal the historical destiny of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China. This play is also one of the classic plays of the Beijing People's Art Theater and was later adapted into a movie and TV series of the same name.
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