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Opium Family
''Opium Family'' ( zh, first=s, s=罂粟之家, p=Yīngsù zhī Jiā) is a novella by Su Tong, first published in 1988.Choy, H. Y.F., p139 The novella was translated into English by Michael S. Duke, and this translation was published as a collection of stories by Su Tong, named ''Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas'', published by William Morrow & Company in 1993. This collection also includes the novellas ''Raise the Red Lantern'' and '' Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes''. This story is about an opium poppy-growing family that experiences hardship; this work is told in both the first and third person perspectives. ''Opium Family'' and ''Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes'' take place in a fictional location called "Maple Village". Yingjin Zhang of Indiana University compared it to Yoknapatawpha County.Zhang, p. 185. This location is in the south of the country.Choy, H. Y.F., p138 Story It includes a landlord named Liu Chencao, who was born to a man named Chen Mao, but has another land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity. Contemporary history is Political history, politically dominated by the Cold War (1947–1991) between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. The confrontation spurred fears of a Nuclear warfare, nuclear war. An all-out "hot" war was avoided, but both sides intervened in the internal politics of smaller nations in their bid for global influence and via proxy wars. The Cold War ultimately ended with the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter stages and aftermath of the Cold War enabled the democratization of much of Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Decolonization was another important trend in Southeast Asia, the Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
