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Wives And Concubines
''Raise the Red Lantern'' (), originally known as ''Wives and Concubines'' (), is a 1990 novella by Su Tong, published by (遠流出版公司), that describes a female former university student whose mind is broken by the concubine system in 1930s China. It was adapted into the 1991 film, ''Raise the Red Lantern'', by Zhang Yimou. Gary Krist of ''The New York Times'' wrote that the novel is "a subtle, profoundly feminist tale that nonetheless has all the gamy melodrama of pulp entertainment". Title and translations The first edition of the novella, published in Taiwan, had the name ''Wives and Concubines''. However the name used in the second edition in Taiwan and in the Hong Kong edition became ''Raise the Red Lantern''. - The translator's note was written by the translator himself. Krist wrote that the use of ''Raise the Red Lantern'' by other editions was "presumably to ride on the movie's popularity". The novel was translated into English by Michael S. Duke, and this tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su Tong
Tong Zhonggui (; born January 23, 1963), known by the pen name of Su Tong () is a Chinese writer. He was born in Suzhou and lives in Nanjing. He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish novels in 1983. He is now vice president of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Known for his controversial writing style, Su is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China. Work Su has written seven full-length novels and over 200 short stories, some of which have been translated into English, German, Italian and French. He is best known in the West for his novella ''Raise the Red Lantern'' (originally titled ''Wives and Concubines''), published in 1990. The book was adapted into the film, ''Raise the Red Lantern'' by director Zhang Yimou. The book has since been published under the name given to the film in the English version and in some other versions. His other works available in English translation are ''Rice'', ''My Life as Emperor'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldmann (publisher)
Goldmann (formerly ''Wilhelm Goldmann Publishing'') is a publishing house in Munich and part of the Bertelsmann group belonging to the Random House Publishing Group. They are the best-selling commercial publishers in Germany, especially in paperbacks. Today the publishing house is an imprint of Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. History Founding in Leipzig The publishing house was founded in 1922 in Leipzig by Wilhelm Goldmann, who had previously worked as a traveling agent for other publishers. The new publishing house first published art books and adventure novels and celebrated its first success with the detective novels of Edgar Wallace in the mid-1920s. To which the expressive modern design of the book covers by Heinrich Hussmann, and the fact that Goldmann published an inexpensive "brochure edition" in addition to the traditional clothbound books, which became an early form of the subsequent pocket books that were later developed for the train station bookstore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Of The Opium Poppy
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Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction
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