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Four Generations under One Roof

Part two, volume one cover, 1946
Author	Lao She
Original title	四世同堂 Sì Shì Tóng Táng
Language	Chinese
Published	1944-1945 (3 parts)
Publication place	China

Four Generations Under One Roof (四世同堂; Sì Shì Tóng Táng) is a 1944 novel by Lao She describing the life of the Chinese people during the Japanese occupation.^[1] The novel is divided into three parts：Bewilderment (惶惑), Ignominy (偷生), and Famine (饥荒). An abridged translation by Ida Pruitt, The Yellow Storm, was published in 1951.

Part one and part two of the novel were published in China during the mid-1940s; all three parts of the novel were first published in unabridged form in 1982. In 2016, about 100,000 words of the original manuscript of the English-language translation of Famine were recovered.^[2]