Wolf Totem - Jiang Rong

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Contemporary
Language: EnglishKeywords: China Mongolia Wolf Wolves

Written by Jiang Rong
Read by Jason Culp
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps

Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

Originally published in Chinese as Lang Tuteng
by Changjiang Literature and Arts Publishing House, 2004.

Translated by Howard Goldblatt
First published in 2008 by The Penguin Press

Audiobook
Read by: Jason Culp
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
Unabridged

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Book Description
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Wolf Totem has been a sensation ever since it shot to the top of the Chinese best-seller charts in 2004. A beautiful and moving portrayal of a land and culture that no longer exists, it is also a powerful portrait of modern China and a fascinating insight into the country’s own view of itself, its history and its people.

The book is a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent down to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution. The author, Lü Jiamin, wrote the book under the pseudonym Jiang Rong; his true identity did not become publicly known until several years after the book’s publication.

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers a life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains.

But when members of the People’s Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen’s solitary existence is shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Only time will tell whether the grasslands’ environment and culture will ever recover.