Beneath the Red Banner by Lao She, one of modern China's best loved writers, is an autobiographical novel published after his death. The author of Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw Boy) and the drama Teahouse, Lao She died in 1966, leaving Beneath the Red Banner unfinished. It is an account of life in Beijing at the turn of the century and is told with great wit and warmth, candour and sympathy. (back cover)