Four Generations Under One Roof

Name: Four Generations Under One Roof
Author: Lao Shei

by Lao Shei

Chinese novel portraying family life across transformative historical periods

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Lao Shei

Beijing novelist and playwright who chronicled the city's working classes with humor and pathos. Teahouse, his most celebrated play, spans fifty years of Beijing history through the lives of a teahouse and its customers.

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