Teahouse by Lao She/茶馆

The pinnacle of Beijing-style fiction, a classic in literary history, and the tragedy of an era. 京味小说的巅峰，文学史上的经典，一个时代的悲剧 Teahouse is structured in three acts, set against the backdrop of the rise and decline of a bustling Beijing teahouse named Yu Tai. It portrays the social landscape of Beijing and the transformations in the lives of characters from different social strata across nearly five decades-from the late Qing Dynasty to the era of the Beiyang warlords, and finally to the period fo...