{"id":4788,"date":"2004-07-30T21:37:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:02","slug":"raise-the-red-lantern-three-novellas-by-su-tong-translated-by-michael-s-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/raise-the-red-lantern-three-novellas-by-su-tong-translated-by-michael-s-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas by Su Tong, translated by Michael S. Duke [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Raise-the-Red-Lantern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31402\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Raise-the-Red-Lantern.jpg\" alt=\"Raise the Red Lantern\" width=\"430\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s no wonder that Chinese film auteur Zhang Yimou chose the title novella for his film of the same name, about four desperate women vying for the attention of their shared wealthy husband. Tong is an enticing storyteller, deftly capturing the dissolution of three different families in each of the novellas. In \u201cNineteen Thirty-Four Escapes,\u201d a greedy father\u2019s desertion of his small-village family for city life brings his own eventual downfall. And in \u201cOpium Family,\u201d an entire town is brought down by the very opium that brings the village unexpected wealth.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, July 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (paperback reprint; United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4778\" title=\"Raise the Red Lantern\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/raise-the-red-lantern.jpg\" alt=\"Raise the Red Lantern\" width=\"124\" height=\"193\" \/>It\u2019s no wonder that Chinese film auteur Zhang Yimou chose the title novella for his film of the same name, about four desperate women vying for the attention of their shared wealthy husband. Tong is an enticing storyteller, deftly capturing the dissolution of three different families in each of the novellas. In \u201cNineteen Thirty-Four Escapes,\u201d a greedy father\u2019s desertion of his small-village family for city life brings his own eventual downfall. And in \u201cOpium Family,\u201d an entire town is brought down by the very opium that brings the village unexpected wealth.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, July 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (paperback reprint; United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535,66],"tags":[3598,84,6608,10,68,4678,4679,3511],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","category-translation","tag-asianweek","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-michael-s-duke","tag-raise-the-red-lantern","tag-su-tong"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas by Su Tong, translated by Michael S. 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