"Four Generations Under One Roof" Author: Lao She Publisher: Shantou University Press

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is a classic Chinese modern novel and one of Lao She's representative works.

The novel, with the life of four generations of the Qi family as the main line, depicts the ups and downs, life and death of people from all walks of life represented by the residents of Xiaoyangquan Hutong against the backdrop of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the fall of Peking. The work eulogizes and promotes the great patriotism and steadfast and noble national integrity of the Chinese people, and epically shows the outstanding contributions made by the Chinese people to the world anti-fascist war during the Second World War. It is magnificent and moving.

Lao She (February 3, 1899 - August 24, 1966), whose real name was Shu Qingchun and whose pen name was Sheyu, was a member of the Zhenghong Banner of the Manchu ethnic group in Beijing. He was a famous modern Chinese novelist, writer and dramatist. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and drowned himself in the Taiping Lake northwest of Beijing in the late night of August 24, 1966, at the age of 67.