Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes

Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes (Chinese: 一九三四年的逃亡; pinyin: Yījiǔsānsì Nián de Táowáng) is a novella by Su Tong, first published in 1987. In 1990 it was published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. (遠流出版公司) in a collection with the novella Raise the Red Lantern (which there is titled under its original Chinese title, Wives and Concubines, which is also was the title of the entire volume).

This, told in the first person, is about an impoverished peasant family.

The novella was translated into English by Michael S. Duke, and this translation was published as a collection of stories by Su Tong, named Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas, published by William Morrow & Company in 1993. This collection also includes the novellas Raise the Red Lantern and Opium Family.

Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes and Opium Family take place in a fictional location called "Maple Village". Yingjin Zhang of Indiana University compared Maple Village to Yoknapatawpha County. This location is in the south of the country.