This book collects the fictions and essays of Lao She and includes 17 prose works which are widely popular classics about his perception of living and travelling in Jinan, Qingdao and Inner Mongolia, featuring simple and vivid language. Growing Flowers, Cats, Winter in Jinan, My Mother and Missing Beijing have been listed in the primary and middle school textbooks. In addition, it includes 4 fictions and the same name masterpiece Crescent Moon is the representative novella of Lao She, which tells the bitter, helpless and poverty life of the protagonist in a simple and vivid writing style and shows the deep and dark reality of the society at that time in a pure and fresh way.
Lao She (Chinese: 老舍; pinyin: Lǎo Shě; Wade–Giles: Lao She; February 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was the pen name of Shu Qingchun (simplified Chinese: 舒庆春; traditional Chinese: 舒慶春; pinyin: Shū Qìngchūn; Manchu surname: Sumuru), a noted Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and best known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity. His works are known especially for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
One of the best short story collection from china.my favorite stories from this book are * By the temple of great compassion * The eyeglasses * Crescent moon and * Filing a prescription