Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
Four concubines compete for the sexual attentions of their master in a stifling 1930s rural clan house in a collection of novellas that explore relationships between women and men. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
Four concubines compete for the sexual attentions of their master in a stifling 1930s rural clan house in a collection of novellas that explore relationships between women and men. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780688122171 (0688122175)
Publish date: July 1st 1993
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Pages no: 267
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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