Talk:Raise the Red Lantern

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Could a specialist add the filming location? olivier 04:06 Dec 2, 2002 (UTC)

Contents 1 pinyin wrong 2 Fuedal? 3 Shim-Pua marriage 4 Updates

[edit] pinyin wrong

the pinyin seems to be wrong on my rendering engine, not complying with unicode. --Abdull 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fuedal?

China stopped being feudal when the Qing fell in 1911, so the era bit here is wrong.

China stopped being Feudal with Qin Shihuangdi, long before Europe even thought of feudalism. The use of feudal for imperial China is a side-effect of marxist philosophy claiming that everything pre-revolution is feudal.

Well actually after the death of Yuan Shikai, China became a huge warlord arena; but it's describing that as feudal like describing Gangland America as feudal. Warlord era is the term. Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 01:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shim-Pua marriage

Shim-pua_marriage <--- Is this the marriage arrangement that the film used?

No, I really doubt it. Let me quote the article, "Due to the lower-class status of the girls, discrimination was often present, and slavery-like treatment was not uncommon." However, this is clearly not the conditions that appeared in the film. Her role was not as labour. SIGURD42 11:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

Well, hello! I think I've done quite a bit for this article now. I've added and changed quite a bit. All the current citations are my work, I hope they're OK [I'd never added a citation before today!]. I've added a new 'reception' section, added to the film infobox, fiddled/changed/edited the intro and added to the external links. I also got rid of what I thought was a POV comment somewhere, I'll leave you to check the history if you're interested. I may well add a 'Distribution' section soon as I think I've got some good info on that. Please tell me if anything was wrong/good/bad or whatever. Comments would be great! SIGURD42 17:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, this is looking great, I'm going to make a few changes, but it's great to see so much work being put into this article. Cop 663 18:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and your contribution and general clearing up of everything. I'm still learning how to go about doing things so sorry for any untidiness. I've added a citation for the one you removed from an MGM release so thats got to be OK now. In what cases should I use information form imdn then? SIGURD42 20:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

IMDb is fine for basic cast and crew information, etc., but not suitable for most other stuff because it doesn't cite its. Cop 663 21:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Aha, I see. Thanks for that, I'll keep that in mind. Seems like certain articles like Cast Away need some serious revising then. Anyways, I added my distribution section. I only talk about video releases though, I haven't mentioned its premiere or anything like that. SIGURD42 15:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)