Raise the red lantern

Su Tong

Translated by Michael S. Duke earliest edition we have, 1993 Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 272 pages

When the internationally acclaimed film Raise the Red Lantern opened in North America, it was praised by critics and nominated for an Academy Award. This extraordinary film was based on an even more sensual and brutal novella by one of China's most provocative New Wave writers--a then-twenty-six-year-old Nanjing resident named Su Tong (now thirty-one). The title novella is a hauntingly beautiful, nightmarish tale of...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Raise the Red Lantern edition · 1996 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 272 pages · 9780140260304
Raise the red lantern edition · 1993 · W. Morrow and Co. · 267 pages

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.