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This book is a collection of essays by the famous writer Lao She. It includes Mr. Lao She's classic prose works "Winter in Jinan", "Mr. Moruo I Know", "Short Notes of a Trip to Yunnan", "Poet", "Mourning to Mr. Xu Dishan", etc. Lao She's prose is as elegant as it is vulgar. He is proficient in the art of writing, and he does not just use the rhetoric of "true feelings" and "the body is separated but the spirit is not separated" as footnotes. He knows how to magically integrate his academic talents into his writing, allowing the aura of his personality to permeate every word.

This book collects many of Lao She's essays and selects the author's works: Some Impressions (1, 2, 3), Some Impressions (4, 5, 6, 7), Informal Park, Appreciation of Baotu Spring, Looking Up for Joy, Discussing, God's Games, Habits, Another Year of Green Grass, Spring Breeze, Little Animals, Little Animals (Pigeons) Continued, Thinking of Peiping, Mr. Dai Yutang's Outline for Going to the United States, Talking about Humor, British People, Use of Facts, My Ideal Family, etc.

Lao She's prose is the antidote to anxious times. He allows us to taste life in detail and get the true flavor from it. There are no grand slogans here, just hot dumplings and the fragrance of flowers in the small courtyard. He writes about sacrifices to the stove in the twelfth lunar month, editors urging manuscripts, cats on tiled roofs, and children playing. Reading his prose is like simmering orange tea by the fire and listening to neighbors chatting about home affairs. "In troubled times, even chickens will die." He also talked about the ups and downs of people in the great era, but he always focused on ordinary daily life, precisely because it contains human dignity that is indispensable in any era.

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Lao She, the "People's Artist", 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. This book also includes Lao She's classic masterpieces "Longxugou" and "My Life".

"Zhao Ziyue" depicts the chaotic, despicable and vulgar life of a group of college students in the rooftop apartment of Drum Tower in Beijing in the 1920s. The protagonist Zhao Zi said that he did not study hard and made trouble everywhere, so he was expelled from the university. He played mahjong all night long and spent all day at the banquet, drunk and dreaming. At the critical moment of life and death, thanks to the persuasion of his best friend Li Jingchun, he finally woke up, changed his ways, and started a new life.

"Dr. Wen" tells the story of Dr. Wen, a doctor studying in the United States. He is a literary and ruffian politician who has no knowledge but is good at power. He uses the foreign brand of a doctor studying in the United States to cheat, curry favor with the powerful, and find a job as a "commissioner" with both fame and fortune. Although he also loves money, he knows that in order to make money, he must become an official. Therefore, the philosophy of life he believes in is the two-in-one of "money standard plus official standard". Lao She used a sharp pen of ridicule and ridicule to lash out at the ugly people among the "Confucian scholars" in old China.

"Two Horses" presents the differences between Eastern and Western cultures through the experiences of Chinese businessman Lao Ma and his son Xiao Ma in the UK, and satirizes and criticizes the weaknesses of Chinese national character. This is one of Lao She's earlier works that focuses on Eastern and Western cultures.

"Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's autobiographical novel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest and folk customs were corrupted, and the lives of the banner people became increasingly difficult. During the Gengzi period, with the arrival of the Boxer Rebellion, the seemingly peaceful lives of the obedient people in old Beijing suddenly went into trouble. Faced with the broken rivers and mountains and remaining homes, the old Beijingers who had endured the plunder could only remember this period of history in their hearts forever.

In 1932, Mr. Lao She completed a work called "Cat City" which was considered an outlier at the time. In a sense, "Cat City" can be regarded as a work that transcended its times at the time. When this work was translated and introduced to the West, its subject matter and style were deeply loved by Western readers.

The three-act drama "Tea House" is a classic in the history of Chinese drama. Each character's lines are designed to be very vivid, expressive, full of personality, concise and concise, and have profound meaning. It is still a standing repertoire of modern theaters. Mr. Lao She's short stories are wise and concise, and his prose is simple and humorous.

The play "Zhang Zizhong" was created during the anti-Japanese war in 1940. After the anti-Japanese general Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940) died for his country, Lao She was inspired by his heroic deeds. He spent three months and revised five drafts to create the four-act drama "Zhang Zizhong", creating a vivid image of the anti-Japanese general. The script describes Zhang Zizhong's persistence in the war of resistance. During the Battle of Linyi, he led his troops to defend the west bank of the Yi River. He fought bloody battles on Chaye Mountain for 7 days and 7 nights. He took the lead, used offense as defense, and pushed back the Japanese Itagaki Division 80 miles. The work focuses on the anti-Japanese war general Zhang Zizhong's example of leading the army, strict military discipline, understanding of the situation, and winning the hearts of the people. It particularly highlights his bravery and fearlessness, fighting the invaders to the end and dying on the battlefield, in order to inspire the people in the anti-war.

Life is like a play sometimes, with moments of joy and moments of earth-shaking, if you work hard, you won't be kicked out. Accidents sometimes strike suddenly. We cannot choose our fate, but we can choose how to face problems. A small teahouse is a big society. Here, what you taste is not tea, but life.

Including: Luotuo Xiangzi, Four Generations Under One House, Cat City Story, Under the Zhenghong Banner, Teahouse, Market, Yinghai Collection, Hazao Collection, Train Collection, Anemia Collection, Longxugou, Yue Yaer, Lao Zhang's Philosophy, Zhao Ziri, Divorce, Xiaopo's Birthday, Face Problem, Erma, Exporting Chapters, a total of 19 books.

This collection includes: "Four Generations Under One Roof", "The Soul-Breaking Gun Collection", "Two Horses", "Drum Calligraphy Artist", "Cremation", "Lao Zhang's Philosophy", "Divorced Man", "Camel Xiangzi Dog Morning", "Cat City" and "Xinhan Muled" "The Biography of Niu Tianci", "The Collection of Micro Gods", "Dr. Wen's Sunshine", "How I Write a Novel", "The Unknown Highland Became Famous", "Xiaopo's Birthday Little Wooden Man", "Collection of Humorous Sketch", "Crescent Collection", "Zhao Zi said" and "Small Resurrection under Zhenghong Banner".

This book is one of the representative works of "People's Artist" Lao She and a classic in the history of Chinese drama. The story in the play all takes place in a teahouse. Mr. Lao She captured the characteristics of this scene and highly condensed sixty or seventy main and secondary characters spanning half a century into the teahouse, showing the life scenes and the fate of people 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.

"Collected Works of Lao She" includes Lao She's representative works such as "Tea House", "Camel Xiangzi" and "Four Generations Under One Roof". Among them, "Teahouse" is divided into three acts, with the rise and fall of Yutai Teahouse in old Beijing as the background, showing Beijing's social scene 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 describes an era. People from all walks of life in Beijing come in and out of this big teahouse. What the whole play shows is a magnificent historical picture.

"Four Generations Under One Roof" (set of 3 volumes) is a literary classic worth reading by every generation of Chinese and a national memory worth cherishing by every Chinese. Selected into "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly. This set of books consists of the first part of Four Generations Under One House, Confusion, the second part of Four Generations Under One House, Ignorance, and the third part of Four Generations Under One House, part famine.

Including: four generations living under one roof, Luotuo Xiangzi, Zhenghong Banner, and teahouse. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is divided into three parts: "Confusion", "Stealing Life" and "Famine", with nearly one million words. It is the longest work among Lao She's works. It is also the work that took the longest time to write, took the most energy and the most difficult completion process. The work is set in the occupied area of ​​Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War, with the life of the four generations of the Qi family living under one roof as the main line. It vividly and vividly depicts the humiliating torture and suffering of people from all walks of life, represented by the residents of Xiaoyangquan Hutong, and the process of their gradual awakening and struggle to resist. It praises their valuable national integrity as well as the Chinese nation's unyielding will to fight and determination to resist the war. "Camel Xiangzi" tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in the old city of Beiping, China. The profound realism of this novel lies in the fact that it not only describes the material deprivation of Xiangzi caused by the harsh living environment, but also depicts Xiangzi's spiritual degradation after his life ideals were destroyed...

This book is a novel written by the Chinese writer Lao She. The novel shows the life of ordinary people in the occupied areas of Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War. The book is set in Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Peking. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, the book mainly focuses on the Qi family in the Hutong, supplemented by the Qian family, Guan family and other residents, and depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time. The choice of resistance and obedience, the choice of the country and the individual, and various difficult choices are intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era.

"Camel Xiangzi" tells the story of Xiangzi, an uneducated, young and powerful rickshaw driver from the countryside of Peking, who experienced ups and downs in his life. "Teahouse" is Lao She's representative drama collection, which includes his famous dramas "Teahouse" and "Longxugou", as well as many classic short stories by Mr. Lao She. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is Mr. Lao She's immortal work that positively describes the Anti-Japanese War, exposes and accuses the brutal crimes of Japanese militarism, and praises and promotes the great patriotic spirit of the Chinese people.

The three-act drama "Tea House" is a classic in the history of Chinese drama. Each character's lines are designed to be very vivid, expressive, full of personality, concise and concise, and have profound meaning. It is still a standing repertoire of modern theaters. Mr. Lao She's short stories are wise and concise, and his prose is simple and humorous. The selected chapters in this book are all representative works praised by experts and readers, allowing readers to appreciate the writer's unique literary characteristics.

Lao She is a famous modern Chinese writer and language master. He is the author of "Camel Xiangzi", "Four Generations Under One Roof", "Tea House" and other important classic works that are suitable for both refined and popular tastes. He also left a wealth of popular reading materials on literary theory, such as "Talking about Writing with Comrade Workers", "Lao Niu Breaks the Car", "Writing and Reading", etc. "Lao She Talks about Writing" selects Lao She's discussion on writing, and explains the theme of "how to write" in simple terms from the basic principles of writing, the relationship between writing and reading, the use of language, description techniques, structural methods, etc. It is very instructive and operable for readers who are just learning to write or want to make progress in writing.

"Lao She's Fifteen Lectures on Literature" is compiled based on Mr. Lao She's university lectures. Mr. Lao She synthesized ancient and modern times, conducted a comprehensive and unique thinking on literature from a writer's perspective, turned rigid theories into wisdom-filled thinking, talked about the characteristics of literature, the creation of literature, the origin of literature, the style of literature, divided the genres into literary forms, and talked about the ethos and tendencies of literature. This book is not only an important material for studying Lao She's literary views, but also a rare introductory book on literary theory. This book is the second volume.

Lao She, the author of "How I Write a Novel", is a prolific writer who wrote more than a thousand works in his life, occupying a unique position in the history of modern Chinese literature. Lao She's works are especially famous for his novels, and his representative works include "Camel Xiangzi", "Four Generations Under One Roof", etc. When he started writing, there were few new literature writers writing long novels. He was one of the earliest authors of modern Chinese novels and contributed to the development of this genre. And his short and medium-sized novels are also excellent works that are colorful and meaningful, such as "The Soul-Breaking Gun", "Taking Office", "Liu Family Courtyard", "Mr. Breeches", etc. Some of them are deep and heavy, humorous or witty, and they are all written with their own characteristics. The exquisiteness of their artistic conception and the breadth of their themes are even better than their full-length works. In addition, Lao She also left many classics in dramas. "Teahouse" and "Longxugou" are all masterpieces of Chinese drama.

"Lao She's Fifteen Lectures on Literature" is compiled based on Mr. Lao She's university lectures. Mr. Lao She synthesized ancient and modern times, conducted a comprehensive and unique thinking on literature from a writer's perspective, turned rigid theories into wisdom-filled thinking, talked about the characteristics of literature, the creation of literature, the origin of literature, the style of literature, divided the genres into literary forms, and talked about the ethos and tendencies of literature. This book is not only an important material for studying Lao She's literary views, but also a rare introductory book on literary theory. This book is the first volume.

This is a classic work by Mr. Lao She. It tells the story of a doctorate who studied in the United States. He is a literary politician who has no knowledge but is good at power. He uses the foreign name of a doctor studying in the United States to cheat, ingratiate himself with the powerful, and get a job as a "commissioner" with both fame and fortune. Although he also loves money, he knows that in order to make money, he must become an official. Therefore, the philosophy of life he believes in is the two-in-one of "money standard plus official standard". Lao She used a sharp pen of ridicule and ridicule to lash out at the ugly people among the "Confucian scholars" in old China.

Xiangzi comes from the countryside, is kind, diligent, and perseverant. He goes to Peking to pull a cart to make a living. His biggest dream is to pull his own cart one day. However, his hopes were repeatedly shattered due to various reasons. After three ups and downs, Xiangzi gradually lost confidence in life, and finally became a self-defeating and jobless vagrant.

"Camel Xiangzi" is one of the masterpieces of the literary master Lao She. It tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in the old city of Beiping, China in the 1920s and 1930s. The work uses realistic brushwork and compassionate feelings to create a series of unforgettable artistic images such as Xiangzi and Huniu. Through the protagonist's experience, it reveals the exploitation and oppression of the people by the dark old society and expresses deep sympathy for the working people. "Camel Xiangzi" plays an important role in the history of modern Chinese literature.

"Longxugou" mainly tells the story of Cheng Baotai, an upright old artist who used to make a living as a performer. After being severely beaten by the bully Black Whirlwind, he fled to live in Longxugou and relied on Mrs. Cheng to sell cigarettes at a stall.

The two works "Train Collection" and "Anemia Collection" are both based on the background of the Anti-Japanese War. The writing style is cordial and emotional. They both describe the people at the bottom and criticize the bureaucratic class. It also has strong practical significance at the moment and resonates with readers. In 1938, Lao She was elected as the executive director and director of the general affairs department of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association. He presided over daily meetings internally, represented the "Arts Association" externally, and was fully responsible for the leadership of the association. In July of the same year, he moved west to Chongqing with the Literary and Art Association until the Anti-Japanese War achieved complete victory. Lao She worked with enthusiasm, patience and meticulousness, uniting writers and artists from all walks of life and working together to promote the literary and artistic activities of the Anti-Japanese War. He used the pen as a weapon to create various literary and artistic forms. The works of this period are included in these two collections of short stories.

Lao She is a well-known modern writer in my country and a representative figure of Beijing School literature. He is famous for his novels, plays and essays. His works have a unique humorous style and rich flavor of life, and are deeply loved by readers. Lao She represents the literary height of an era and is known as the "people's artist".

This book contains two novels by Mr. Lao She, namely "Cat City" and "Xiaopo's Birthday". In 1932, Mr. Lao She completed a work called "Cat City" which was considered an outlier at the time. In a sense, "Cat City" can be regarded as a work that transcended its times at the time. When this work was translated and introduced to the West, its subject matter and style were deeply loved by Western readers. "Xiaopo's Birthday" takes Xiaopo, a boy living in Nanyang (that is, Singapore), and his sister Xianpo as the protagonists, and tells all kinds of interesting things in Xiaopo's life. Lao She borrowed a child's tone and eyes to "make a small satire on things in Nanyang", implying a "so-called thought that does not belong to the world of children", which is to "unite the weak and small nations of the world to work together."

"Train Collection" is a collection of Lao She's short stories, including the following works: "Fire Train", "East and West", "People Are of the Same Mind", "Killing Dogs", "My Life", "A Letter from Home", "A Piece of Pork Liver", "Bath Slave", and "Rabbit".

"Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's masterpiece and a truly great contemporary literary masterpiece. Lao She is a bannerman and belongs to the "Zhenghong Banner" of the "Eight Banners of Manchuria", hence the name of this autobiographical novel. "Under the Zhenghong Banner" is set in the society of Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty. Lao She writes from his birth. It was the late Qing Dynasty and social turmoil. The people's livelihood is in decline. Every little character in the novel is vivid: the honest father, the kind and upright shopkeeper Wang, the acerbic aunt, the smart and capable second brother Fuhai... They all have different destinies in the turbulent history...

The well-known work of Lao She, the famous modern novelist in China, tells the story of a plane bound for Mars that crashed and killed everyone at the moment it collided with Mars. Only "I" survived, but was taken to their cat city by a group of cat-faced aliens and began a difficult alien life.

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is Mr. Lao She's masterpiece novel. It is divided into three parts, namely "Confusion", "Stealing Life" and "Famine". Against the background of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the fall of Peiping, the novel takes the life of the four generations of the Qi family as the main line. It vividly and vividly depicts the ups and downs, life and death, mental torture and deep suffering of people of all walks of life and all kinds of people represented by a dozen residents of Xiaoyangquan Hutong. It reproduces the process of the people of Peking under the brutal rule of the Japanese invaders from being confused and depressed, enduring humiliation to gradually awakening and resisting. It praises their valuable national integrity and the Chinese nation's unyielding will to fight and determination to resist the war. It epically demonstrates the outstanding contributions made by the Chinese people to the world's anti-fascist war during the Second World War.

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is divided into two volumes. It is a million-word novel written by the Chinese writer Lao She. The work is set in the occupied area of ​​Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War. It describes the psychology and experiences of more than a dozen families and more than 100 people, centered on the four generations of the Qi family, in the "Little Sheep Circle" alley in Beijing. It reproduces the process of the people of Peiping from being confused and depressed, enduring humiliation and living in humiliation to gradually awakening and resisting under the brutal rule of the Japanese invaders. It praises their valuable national integrity as well as the Chinese nation's unyielding will to fight and determination to resist the war.

"Teahouse" shows the social changes of nearly half a century in three eras: the Reform Movement of 1898, the warlord war, and the eve of the founding of New China. Through a teahouse called Yutai, it reveals the darkness, corruption, grotesqueness and bizarreness of Chinese society in the past half century, as well as all the living beings in this society. There are nearly 50 characters in the script. In addition to teahouse owners, there are bannermen who eat royal food, industrial capitalists, eunuchs in the Qing palace, priests who believe in foreign religions, impoverished farmers, as well as spies, thugs, policemen, gangsters, fortune tellers, etc. There are many characters but distinct personalities. You can "know the person by hearing their voice" and "outline the outline of a character in a few words." The work depicts the dismal management of the ancestral "Yutai Teahouse" by teahouse owner Wang Lifa. Although he is shrewd, tactful, and devoted, he is ultimately unable to stop the decline. It reflects the trend of Chinese society from the side. The play has been performed many times at home and abroad and has won high praise. It is a classic work of contemporary Chinese drama creation. "Longxugou" describes the different experiences of four families in a small courtyard in Beijing during social changes, and shows the tremendous changes in the old and new eras. The play has created distinctive characters such as Madman Cheng, Aunt Wang, Niangzi, and Sister-in-law Ding. In particular, the protagonist Cheng Madman changed from an artist to a "madman" in the old society, and then from a "madman" to an artist after liberation. It reflects the different fates of the Chinese people before and after liberation, embodies the central idea of ​​the people's government for the people and the people's support and love for the party and the government. "Treasure Ship" is a children's drama created by Mr. Lao She. The play tells the story of the kind-hearted and hard-working Wang Xiaoer who rescued the old man Li Bashi who fell into the water when he was chopping firewood in the mountains. In order to thank Wang Xiaoer, Li Bashi gave Wang Xiaoer a small paper boat, which can be turned into a big boat that rides the wind and waves. When the flood came, Wang Xiaoer drove a treasure boat to help many animals out of danger, and rescued the lazy Zhang Busan from the flood. After the flood receded, the greedy Zhang Busan stole the treasure ship and presented it to the emperor while everyone was rebuilding their homes. With the help of Li Ba Shi and his friends, Wang Xiaoer entered the palace and recaptured the treasure ship, and punished the greedy Zhang Busan and the stupid emperor as they deserved. It extols the beautiful souls of workers who are diligent, kind, helpful, tenacious and brave, and unite and help each other. The twists and turns of the vivid story, the fantasy-rich plot, and the innocent and childish language have made this work deeply loved by young readers since its birth.

"Xiaopo's Birthday" is a long fairy tale created by Mr. Lao She. The work takes Xiaopo, a boy living in Nanyang (that is, Singapore), and his sister as the protagonists. It tells interesting stories in Xiaopo's life. The second half of the story is entirely Xiaopo's dream, full of wild imagination, and also implies the author's ridicule of various practical disadvantages in Nanyang. This book has vivid text, concise writing style, lively style, innocence and full of imagination and fantasy. At the same time, the author uses symbols and metaphors to express his views on many issues. "Dr. Wen" tells the story of Wen Zhiqiang, a doctor of philosophy who has evil intentions and ambitions and returned to China after studying in the United States. Dr. Wen is a ruffian politician who has no knowledge but is good at power. He used the foreign brand of studying in the United States as a doctor to cheat, curry favor with the powerful, and get a job as a "commissioner" with both fame and fortune. Although he also loves money, he knows that in order to make money, he must become an official. Therefore, the philosophy of life he believes in is the two-in-one of "money standard plus official standard". Lao She used a sharp pen of ridicule and ridicule to lash out at the ugly people among the "Confucian scholars" in old China.

"Teahouse" is a famous drama by Lao She and a classic of modern Chinese dramas. Through the Small World of Teahouses, it reflects a century of modern Chinese history and has both artistic and cognitive value. It is a must-read for middle school Chinese teaching. This new compilation adds another play by Lao She, "Longxugou". The content is continuous with "Teahouse" and artistically complements each other. At the same time, the "Introduction" written by Guo Juan in 2003 was revised.

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is Mr. Lao She's masterpiece and a unique piece of Beijing-style literature. The novel is set in an ordinary hutong in Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War. It focuses on the humiliating and tragic experiences of many small characters in the hutong, such as the Qi family, the Qian family, and the Guan family. It depicts the social mentality of ordinary people who are confused, living in peace, and living in peace during the war, as well as their slow and painful awakening process when the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed. It profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the course of history.

This book is one of our publisher's "Collection of American Literature in the Republic of China". The library collects a series of classic beautiful articles by famous writers during the Republic of China based on the author. The volume "Photographs" contains more than 70 beautiful articles written by Lao She during the Republic of China, such as "The British", "Viewing Paintings", "Photographs", "My Ideal Family", etc. Including these works in the collection is another tribute to these writers and their creations, which is of great publishing significance.

The plane shattered. I'm from Earth, now on Mars. Looking around, everything is gray. Seven or eight steps away from me, a group of people stood. I can see clearly at a glance, the cat-faced person!

This book is a representative work of Mr. Lao She's decades of prose writing career. It has been carefully selected, typed and assembled for the first time. The true meaning of life lies not only in external gains, but also in inner abundance and prosperity. The beauty of this world is to be able to live interestingly and freely in ordinary years, and to live life into poetry. No matter how we are treated by this era, we must make our lives interesting. We might as well be more free and easy in our approach to life. Instead of tiredly trying to change our lives, we might as well live our lives free and easy. Establish clear goals, face life optimistically, and do everything you like with a free and easy attitude. Everything will be different from the past!

The pioneering work of Chinese science fiction novels, a record of the earthling "I"'s experiences in the Cat Country on Mars. "Cat City" is an allegorical cultural satire novel. The Chinese "I" on earth took a plane piloted by a friend to explore Mars, but the plane crashed during landing, leaving only "I" alive. In the "cat people" country on Mars, "I" personally observed the ailing culture and social conditions of the cat country, and witnessed the cat country's destruction by the invasion of the "dwarf" army. The whole book is full of fantasy, absurdity and inconceivability, reflecting Lao She's inner world within the same national framework as humans on earth.

The commemorative edition of the full volume, including the three volumes of "Panic", "Stealing Life" and "Famine", has nearly one million words. It took eight years to create and it took forty years for the full volume to be published. Lao She's half-life effort. The original manuscript of this book was destroyed during ten years of turmoil, and some of the content was back-translated from the English version. Selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" selected by Asia Weekly, recommended by the Ministry of Education for the new curriculum standards, and a must-read masterpiece in Chinese language for the Beijing College Entrance Examination. The misery of the fall of home, the sorrow of separated relatives, the perseverance of rebirth from the ashes, the anger of rebuilding the country... Mr. Lao She condensed the gray memory of the entire Chinese nation into the tragic experiences and humiliation of more than a dozen residents of a small alley with words full of responsibility and compassion. How did a big family with four generations under one roof survive the difficult times in a war-torn era? What fate will each generation have?

The main character in the play "The Problem of Face", Secretary Tong Jingming, is worried about "not losing his identity because of the war of resistance" and "not being annoyed to death because of an official matter." He is not doing his job properly and is careless about his work. When he finally lost face and was dismissed from his post after having had "face problems" all his life, what he considered was to ask the doctor for a "respectable" suicide method to save his "face." The "face problems" of other characters in the play are different. Lao She's satire on these characters was not only another criticism of the bad nature of the people, but also a lash against the corrupt style of the Kuomintang bureaucracy during the War of Resistance.

The dream of Xiangzi, a young man in Beijing, is to earn a car, just like a battle-hardened warrior earning a badge that can make him free and independent. He went out early and came back late, and worked hard through hardships, which impressed Huniu, the daughter of the owner of the car factory. She designed to marry this honest and hard-working boy who was more than ten years younger than herself. Just when Xiangzi felt that he was getting closer and closer to his dream, misfortune quietly came. His father-in-law made things difficult for him and disappeared, Huniu died in childbirth, and the social situation was chaotic, which made him difficult to move forward. During the hard years, he fell in love with the girl next door, Xiao Fuzi. Xiao Fuzi was forced to sell herself into prostitution due to the pressure of life. Xiangzi said: "Wait! I will come when I am ready! I will definitely come!"...

"Camel Xiangzi" tells the story of Xiangzi, an uneducated, young and powerful rickshaw driver from the countryside of Peking, who experienced ups and downs in his life. The unique Beijing-style spoken language vividly embodies ordinary city life and folk customs, making the characters in the novel more fitting. A display of true vernacular art.

"Camel Xiangzi" is set in old Peiping and describes the tragic experience of a rickshaw driver nicknamed "Camel" Xiangzi. It reflects the pain of the working people living at the bottom of the city and exposes the evils of the old society. This work is centered on the main character Xiangzi. There are two clues intertwined around Xiangzi's actions. One is Xiangzi's "pull a cart and buy his own cart". It describes how he worked hard and struggled to be a free driver. In the end, his hope was shattered and he fell into an abyss of more misery. This is the main line. The other is the entanglement between Xiangzi and the opposite sex such as Huniu, Xiaofuzi, and Mrs. Xia. This is a secondary line, but it is integrated with the main line and continuously promotes the development of the plot.