Su Tong

Su Tong is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui, born in 1963 in Suzhou, who now lives in Nanjing. He began publishing novels in 1983, after entering the Chinese department at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and is best known for the novella Raise the Red Lantern, which Zhang Yimou adapted into a 1991 film. His other novels include My Life as Emperor, a first-person tale of a boy who becomes ruler of an imaginary empire and loses his throne, and The Boat to Redemption.