Su Tong rose to international acclaim after Raise the Red Lantern, a film adaptation of his book Wives and Concubines, won the 1993 BAFTA for best non-English language film. He was joint winner of the 2015 Mao Dun Literature Prize, and his earlier novel The Boat to Redemption won the Man Asia Literature Prize in 2009. Josh Stenberg is a translator and senior lecturer Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published monographs on Chinese theatre and literature, as well as translated or edited several volumes of contemporary Chinese Literature. A collection of his own poetry, Nibs and Nubs, will be published by Flying Islands Press in 2024.
