HONG KONG — The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.

Su Tong was awarded $10,000 for his novel “The Boat to Redemption” at an announcement ceremony late Monday, organizers said.

Su’s novel is about a Chinese Communist Party official who’s expelled and exiled with his son after his false claim that he’s the offspring of a revolutionary martyr is exposed.

Su is best known in the West for his short novel “Wives and Concubines,” the basis of the 1991 film, “Raise the Red Lantern.”