Tea House: Chinese-English Contrast

Author: Lao She
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Most of Lao She's works draw their material from the lives and emotions of the people of Beijing, whom he knew and deeply loved. His warm, vivid, and highly colloquial writing style also stems from the streets and markets of ordinary people. Teahouse is Lao She's highest achievement in the art of language. It has long been celebrated and is renowned in the theater world for its famous technique of "a single line of dialogue portraying a character." Teahouse not only remains a classic Chinese play, performed continuously, but has also been translated into multiple languages and staged abroad, gaining widespread popularity and causing a sensation among people from different cultural backgrounds. This book is an English-Chinese parallel text edition, striving to comprehensively and accurately reflect the fundamental aspects and splendid achievements of Chinese literature and culture.