Opium Family

Opium Family (Chinese: 罂粟之家; pinyin: Yīngsù zhī Jiā) is a novella by Su Tong, first published in 1988.

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 Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes.

This story is about an opium poppy-growing family that experiences hardship; this work is told in both the first and third person perspectives.

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