Opium Family (Chinese: 罂粟之家; pinyin: Yīngsù zhī Jiā) is a novella by Su Tong, first published in 1988.
[3] This story is about an opium poppy-growing family that experiences hardship; this work is told in both the first and third person perspectives.
[4] Opium Family and Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes take place in a fictional location called "Maple Village".
[2] In regards to Opium Family and Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes, Duke had stated "that wherever the English seems strange it is because the Chinese was also purposefully so".
[3] Gary Krist of The New York Times felt the translations had a "rambling nature" that became "merely awkward, unrevealing and occasionally tedious.