Lilian Lee is the author of more than thirty books and fifteen feature films. One of the Chinese world's leading
writers, Lee's books are instant bestsellers in her native Hong Kong. She cowrote the screenplay for the film adaptation
of Farewell My Concubine. Farewell My Concubine was translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, a scholar and translator
affiliated with the University of Washington in Seattle.
Review
"Remains endearing and sensitive in its portrayal of the delicate relationships of the protagonists while
scathingly indicting the revolution and its effect on the art and culture of China.... A refreshing divergence
from the often redundant offerings in the world of Western literature."
-- Seattle Herald
HarperCollins Publishers Web Site, April, 2000
Summary
Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant
novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls
in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.
