Raise the Red Lantern: Nation, Spectacle and Concubines
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Discussion of the 1991 film by director Zhang Yimou and the novella on which it is based will be led by Wei Yang Menkus of the University of San Francisco, where she is Program Director for Asian Studies. The two classes will be discussion based and limited to the first 25 people who register.
The novella by Su Tong is available for free from Internet Archive. The movie directed by Zhang Yimou is available to rent from Amazon.
Wei Yang Menkus received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literature from Yale University. She teaches and researches on Chinese cinema in a global context. Her teaching interests include literary adaptation in Chinese cinema.
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