Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
by:
Su Tong (author)
Su Tong (author)
Michael S. Duke (author)
When the internationally acclaimed film Raise the Red Lantern opened in the US, it played to packed theaters in cities nationwide and was nominated for an Academy Award. The extraordinary novella on which the film was based is now being published in English for the first time.
When the internationally acclaimed film Raise the Red Lantern opened in the US, it played to packed theaters in cities nationwide and was nominated for an Academy Award. The extraordinary novella on which the film was based is now being published in English for the first time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140260304 (0140260307)
Publish date: November 1st 1996
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Short Stories,
China,
Tragedy,
Chinese Literature
It isn’t enough to translate Chinese literature into English. The translators do as much as they can to find the right words in English to express the ideas the original author put down, but readers have to be prepared for characters, plots, and references that come from a completely different tradi...
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