Sus prose is sometimes dense with long, twisted sentences. Su tongs short story raise the red lantern originally titled wives and concubines but altered to capitalize on the success of the brilliant 1991 movie is a subtle tale, in which all its meanings and themes seep into the readers mind after turning the pages. But what makes this film so much more eloquent than his other films is the directors extensive use of color schemes, framing and camera angles to deliver a bigger point about the power structure. This film takes place in the early 1900s which tells the story of a woman named songlian played by gong li who was struck by the harshness of reality. Raise the red lantern su tong author, novel wives and concubines things to notediscussfiction a novella 1. Ranging from 1988 to 1999, this book includes interviews with the acclaimed chinese director of such films as red sorghum 1987, shanghai triad 1995, and not one less 1999 and the trilogy ju dou 1990, raise the red lantern 1992, and the story of qiu ju 1992.
Buy raise the red lantern by su tong from waterstones today. The title story, raise the red lantern, is of special interest. All the major events, the important decisions, have already happened. Su tong was born in suzhow in 1963 and graduated from beijing normal university with a degree in chinese literature. Secrets of the red lantern download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Questions to discussraise the red lantern individual. Author su tong s characters never voice feminist sentiments, but the egregiously oppressive situation makes a universal statement about womens rights. Wives and concubines is a 1990 novel by su tong that describes a college girl whose mind is. Su 1 raise the red lantern when fourth mistress, lotus, was carried into the chen family garden, she was nineteen. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The cultural politics of modern chinese fiction and film.
Su tong redefines history to include both empirical social fact and ephemeral individual fantasy. The mode of transport used to bring lotus song lian to the house. It is an adaption by ni zhen of the 1990 novel wives and concubines by su tong. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Jul 06, 2004 su tong was born in suzhou in 1963 and graduated from beijing normal university with a degree in chinese literature.
This is the tale of lotus and three other concubines who are competing for the sexual attentions of their master in a 1930s rural clan house. Watch raise the red lantern online 1991 movie yidio. A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household. Su tong raise the red lantern employs rice, symbol of chinese civilization and heavens bounty, to daring, iconoclastic effect throughout the novel. Raise the red lantern has three stories, each twice as depressing and twisted as the last. D hng dnglng gogo gu is an awardwinning 1991 chinesehong kongtaiwanese coproduced film, directed by zhang yimou and starring gong li. Wives and concubines, a novel written by su tong, expresses the tragedy of a woman, the corruption of a system, and the struggle for some desires. Reading the cultural images of concubines in the works of su tong. If raise the red lantern stands out in this selection, it is due to the novellas central character, lotus, a wild, complex woman reminiscent of antoinette cosway in jean rhyss wide sargasso sea. Buy raise the red lantern by su tong online at alibris. Zhang yimous raise the red lantern was embraced by arthouse audiences for its intelligence and novelty. Like several of zhangs best films, raise the red lantern is based on an original work of fiction, su tongs 1990 novella wives and concubines.
Pdf su tong, a fixture among chinese fiction for decades. The power of zhang yimous metaphors and colour symbolism in. Several of these interviews appear in english for the first time. The chinese film raise the red lantern 1991, like the japanese film woman in the dunes 1960, is about sexual enslavement. The film was later adapted into an acclaimed ballet of the same title by the national ballet of china, also directed by zhang set in the 1920s, the film tells the story of a young woman who becomes one of the concubines of a wealthy. Oct 26, 2015 su tong was born in suzhou in 1963 and graduated from beijing normal university with a degree in chinese literature. Although su tongs novella wives and concubines qiqie chengqun, 1987 and zhang yimous famous adaptation of it, raise the red lantern da. Three novellas by a young chinese writer, su tong, offer fascinating insights into life in rural china in the decades preceding the communist revolution. Secrets of the red lantern download ebook pdf, epub.
The film was later adapted into an acclaimed ballet. Publication date 1993 topics su, tong, 1963 translations into english. The brutal realities of the dark places su tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial china worlds of prostitution, poverty, and. Raise the red lantern is a 1991 film directed by zhang yimou and starring gong li. It has since been republished in the united states under the title raise the red lantern in order to capitalize on the success of the film.
Su s prose is sometimes dense with long, twisted sentences. Raise the red lanternda hong denglong gao gao gua china 1991 125 mins source. Su tong was born in suzhou in 1963 and graduated from beijing normal university with a degree in chinese literature. Raise the red lantern by su tong, 9780060596330, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Su tong s short story raise the red lantern originally titled wives and concubines but altered to capitalize on the success of the brilliant 1991 movie is a subtle tale, in which all its meanings and themes seep into the readers mind after turning the pages. This riveting melodrama is the first fulllength novel in english from the young chinese author of the brilliant novella raise the red lantern 1993. Author su tongs characters never voice feminist sentiments, but the egregiously oppressive situation makes a universal statement about womens rights. Three novellas by tong su and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Duke is a professor of modern chinese literature at the university of british columbia in vancouver. Zhang yimous early film raise the red lantern 1991, adapted from su tongs novel wives and concubines 1990, presents an authentic picture of typical.
Pdf raise the red lantern download full pdf book download. In raise the red lantern the flow of menstrual blood is juxtaposed against both seasonal cycles and. Under su tongs pen, the snakes represent humans, and the human characters in the novel are like snakes themselves, as the survival and destruction of both creatures coincidentally converge. Yet what we really have is the last scene, the final act, the beginning of the end. In the japanese film, a woman captures a man, who spends the night in her home at the bottom of a hole in the desert and finds in.
Apr 27, 2003 the chinese film raise the red lantern 1991, like the japanese film woman in the dunes 1960, is about sexual enslavement. According to the adaptation principles of creativity and allegorization, zhang yimou dissociated the narrative time and space from the background of social history, constructed a close and stable spacetime. Lotus, the fourth mistress, is defiant and presumptuous and has the audacity to be good at, and enjoy sex. The confusion ethics of raise the red lantern senses of. Raise the red lanternda hong denglong gao gao gua china 1991 125 mins. The confusion ethics of raise the red lantern senses. Sad stories of lust, greed, treachery, sex, drugs, death and so much more. Three novellas the second novella, 1934 escapes, chronicles a year of dark events in the history of a very different chen family, peasants struggling against plague, poverty and jealousy. The power of zhang yimous metaphors and colour symbolism. He is the author of raise the red lantern, also available from perennial.
A comparison between literature and film text of raise the. The brutal realities of the dark places su tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial china worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. Lotus, like cosway, only finds refuge from the dark insanity of the human world in private madness. These disparate orders converge on the human body, and for this reason the body and its fluxes play a prominent role in all three narratives. Gong li, he saifei, ma jingwu, cao cuifeng, zhou qi, kong lin. Raise the red lantern by su tong by liz lai on prezi. The brutal realities of the dark places su tong depicts in t. In both films, the protagonist enters a closed system from which there is no escape, and life is ruled by longestablished customs. A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to.