Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, set in turn-of-the-century China before the Cultural Revolution, is about a 19 year-old village woman named Songlian whose father has just died. To support her stepmother's livelihood, she agrees to be sold to a rich man named Chen as his Fourth Wife. For generations, the Chen family has consisted of one man surrounded by wives, servants, and children, all living together in a vast estate, with separate houses for the wives that are not much more than glorified bedchambers. Every evening Chen and his wives take supper together in the family dining house. After dinner there is a ceremony in which all the wives stand waiting outside their respective houses. When Chen decides which one he will spend the nig
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