Laoshe Former Residence

This guide to the Laoshe Former Residence in Beijing centers on the courtyard house where novelist Lao She lived for sixteen years, writing some of his best-known plays at the desk still kept in its small study. It traces his wife's persimmon trees, the nickname she gave the courtyard, and the turn his life took in August 1966 as the Cultural Revolution reached his door. Listen in the study itself, where his desk diary is still left open to one page.