Su Tong

...the success of Ju Dou, Zhang began work on what has been considered by many as his magnum opus, Raise the Red Lantern. Based on novelist Su Tong's book Wives and Concubines, the film depicted the realities of life in a rich family compound...

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Jasmine Women () is a 2004 film, adapted from Su Tong's novel called Funu Shenghuo which means The Lives of Women. It is directed by Hou Yong, formerly a well known cinematographer. Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of...

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...co-produced film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. It is an adaption by Ni Zhen of the 1990 novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong. The film was later adapted into an acclaimed ballet of the same title by the National Ballet...

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Wives and Concubines is a novel by Su Tong that describes a college girl whose mind is broken by the concubine system in 1930s China. It was made into a film in 1991. It has since been republished in the United States under the title Raise...

In this article: Hallucination, Raise the Red Lantern, Suicide, and Wives and Concubines

Su Tong ( b. 1963) is the pen name of a Mainland Chinese writer born in Suzhou and now based in Nanjing. His real name is Tong Zhonggui (童忠贵). He is best known for his book Wives and Concubines in the West, published in 1990. The book was...

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