Wives and Concubines
first publication date: 1990
genre: novel
original language: Standard Mandarin
main subject: concubine
narrative location: People's Republic of China
Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese: 大紅燈籠高高掛), 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
2- date of publication: 1997ISBN-13: 978-2-253-93279-6
- date of publication: 2001ISBN-13: 978-2-08-066718-2
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