LaoShe

Teahouse2021/5/91IntroductionShuQingchun,Manchu

ethnicity（滿族）Chinese

novelist

and

dramatist.

Oneofthemostsignificantfiguresof20thcentury

Chineseliterature,RickshawBoy(駱駝祥子),Teahouse

(茶館).Hisworksareknownespeciallyfortheirvividuseofthe

Beijingdialect.2021/5/92Earlylife

Poorfamily，BeijingFatherdiedinastreetbattlewiththeEight-PowerAlliedForces(八國聯(lián)軍).BeijingNormalThirdHighSchool（1913）BeijingNormalUniversity（1913-1918）2021/5/93TeachingandWritingCareer

Administratorandfacultymember

，primaryandsecondaryschoolsinBeijingand

Tianjing.（1918-1924）Influencedbythe

MayFourthMovement

(1919).London

，Englishliterature

,(especially

Dickens）CheelooUniversity

and

ShandongUniversity.（1930-1937）UnitedStates，atwo-yearculturalgrantsponsoredbytheStateDepartment,lecturingandoverseeingthetranslationofseveralofhisnovels.（1946）2021/5/94LifeinthePeople'sRepublicofChinaHeexperiencedmistreatmentinthe

CulturalRevolution

ofthemid-1960s.

RedGuards

oftheCulturalRevolutionhadattackedhimasacounterrevolutionary.Greatlyhumiliatedbothmentallyandphysically,hecommitted

suicide

bydrowninghimselfinBeijing'sTaipingLakein1966.2021/5/95Hewasmarriedtothefamouspainter

HuJieqing

andtheyhadfourchildren,onesonandthreedaughters.2021/5/96WorksRickshawBoy（1936）

Itdescribesthetragiclifeofarichshaw

pullerin

Beijingofthe1920sandisconsideredtobeaclassicofmodernChineseliterature.

2021/5/97CrescentMoonSiShiTongTang

CatCountry

ThePhilosophyofOldZhang2021/5/98Writingstyle1.content：

Works

are

mostly

taken

from

public

life,

whichhave

developed

important

subject

areas

for

modern

Chineseliterature.2.Language：His

description

of

natural

scenery,

the

ways

of

the

world,

custom

fashion,

using

spoken

masses,

are

showing

a

strong

"

Beijing

flavor

".3.theme：

Criticismofculturaltraditionanddevelopmentofanti-imperialismandpatriotism2021/5/99Teahouse

Teahouse

isaplayinthreeacts,setinateahousecalled"YuTai"inBeijingfrom1898untiltheeveofthe1949revolution.Firstpublishedin1957,theplayisasocialandculturalcommentaryontheproblems,culture,andchangeswithinChinaduringtheearlytwentiethcentury.Atthebackgroundoftheriseanddeclineintheteahouse,hedescribessocialvisageofourcountrythroughthechangesofcharacters..Itrevealsturbulenceanddarknessofsemi-colonialandsemi-feudalsociety.2021/5/910Act1:AfterthefailureofWuxuReformin1898，WangLifadidexcellentbusinessinteahouse，attractingpeopleinvarioustrades.Act2:AlthoughWangLifarackedhisbraintoimproving，teahousebusinesswasinatoughtimeunderthewarlordsinthe1910s.Act3:AfterthevictoryofWWII,allpeopleofrighteousnesswereinadilemma.2021/5/911WangLifaHeisaselfsish,slipperyandsociablebusinessman.Whenpolicemenmaketroubletohim,hewillflatterthem.Butactuallyheisanhonestmanjustwanttodobusinessinastableenvironment.Intheend，hecan’tresistagainstevilforce.Afterteahouseisoccupied，hehangshimself.2021/5/912Artisticfeatures1.SpecialdramaticconflictHeusesTechniqueofsilhouette（剪影式）toshowdifferentkindsofpeopleinthesociety.EverylittleconflictsbetweencharactersimpliescontradictionsbetweenpeopleandOldtime.2021/5/9132.Distinctdramaticstructure

Teahousehasn’tacompleteplotcluebutthroughcharacters’exercisespushingforwardtheplay,itcalled“Thetypeofpicture”.(圖卷式)3.Refineddramaticlanguage

Heusesrefined，humorousandpersonalizedlanguagewithhiddenmessage.ItisalsofullofstronglocalfeatureoftheBeijingdialect.2021/5/914LaoSheTeahouseItisnamedafter