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By Justin Lowe
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Producer and actor Luo Yan as the Wu family matriarch Madame Wu.
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Nobel-prize winner Pearl S. Buck’s novels about China, and particularly the experiences of Chinese women, have become a worldwide phenomenon, making her at one point the most-translated American author of the 20th Century. The Good Earth, published in 1931, received the Pulitzer Prize and was later made into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film. For decades, however, her novels were suppressed in China. It wasn’t until the Chinese government allowed the publication of Buck’s books in 1994 that actor, scriptwriter and producer Luo Yan considered adapting Pavilion of Women for the screen.
“I immediately fell in love with Pavilion of Women because I grew up in Shanghai with my grandparents, who were similar to the novel’s Wu family,” Luo says.
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