Raise the Red Lantern

by Su Tong · first published 1989

Raise the Red Lantern (traditional Chinese: 大紅燈籠高高掛; simplified Chinese: 大红灯笼高高挂), originally known as Wives and Concubines (Chinese: 妻妾成群; pinyin: Qīqiè Chéngqún), is a 1990 novella by Su Tong, published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. (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.

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Original language:

Standard Chinese

Reader rating:

★ 5.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

1989