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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I enjoyed this bookBy Mike DI enjoyed this book. I learned about it while traveling in China earlier this year. There, this book quickly achieved best seller status in the country given the natural detail along with the historical ties to Mao's cultural revolution. The book offers an insightful perspective of the Mongolian herder and Han Chinese farming cultures interspersed with insights into the balance wolves bring the lands they inhabit. Many additional messages for respect of the wisdom of indigenous people faced with encroaching settlement.I live in the rocky mountain region of the U.S. and imagine that the story would be almost exactly the same from the perspective of many of our Native Americans in their truly tragic displacement by western migration and settlement.I would definitely recommend this book to others.I originally bought a used hardcover then also purchased the Kindle version that was more convenient for my travel.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Life on the plains of Inner MongoliaBy DonnieA great book, I learned so much about , the Mongolian culture, the Chinese and how they relate to Mongolia, wolves, marmots, a way of life which is disappearing. This book won a major award in China, and is well worth the read. Amazing details about Mongolian culture and beliefs which was so interesting. Very believable with many details. The author lived the life of his main character. So glad I read it!2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. ... books are written now that are both information and great story tellingBy juniperFew books are written now that are both information and great story telling. This is a wonderful book, not only in its close connection with the spirit of wolves, but in its disclosure of the relationship of the Chinese and the Mongols. It's a richly rewarding read.

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by , the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.

From Publishers WeeklyA publishing sensation in China, this novel wraps an ecological warning and political indictment around the story of Chen Zhen, a student sent during the 1960s Cultural Revolution to live as a shepherd among the herdsmen of the Olonbulang, a grassland on the Inner Mongolia steppes. Chen Zhen is fascinated by the herdsmen, descendants of Genghis Khan, and by the grassland's wolves, with whom the herdsmen live in uneasy harmony. When Mao's government orders the mass execution of the wolves to make way for farming collectives run by Chen Zhen's own people, the Han Chinese, he makes for a somewhat passive hero. Except for Bilgee, the wise old herdsman, and Director Bao, the face of the Communist government in the Olonbulang, the novel's secondary characters make little impression. The wolf packs, however, are vividly and beautifully described. As Chen Zhen helplessly witnesses the consequences of the order, he risks the enmity of both the herdsmen and the state officials by capturing a wolf cub and lovingly raising it as his own wolf totem. Jiang Rong writes reverently about life on the steppes in a manner that recalls Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "An intellectual adventure story. . . . Five hundred bloody and instructive pages later, you just want to stand up and howl." -Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle "[Jiang Rong] is on the way to becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial Chinese novelists in the world."- The Guardian (London) "Electrifying. . . . The power of Jiang's prose (and of Howard Goldblatt's excellent translation) is evident. . . . This semi-autographical novel is a literary triumph." -National Geographic Traveler (Book of the Month)About the AuthorJiang Rong was born in in 1946. His father’s job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine Art in 1967. His education cut short by events in China, the twenty-one-year-old Jiang volunteered to work in Inner Mongolia’s East Ujimqin Banner in 1967, where he lived and labored with the native nomads for the next eleven years of his life. He took with him two cases filled with Chinese translations of Western literary classics, and spent years immersed in personal studies of Mongolian history, culture, and tradition. A growing fascination for the mythologies surrounding the wolves of the grasslands inspired him to learn all he could about them and he adopted and raised an orphaned wolf cub. In 1978 he returned to Beijing, continuing his education at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences one year later. Jiang worked as an academic until his retirement in 2006. Wolf Totem is a fictional account of life in the 1970s that draws on Jiang’s personal experience of the grasslands of China’s border region.

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