Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJiang Rong (pseudonym)
Original title狼图腾
LanguageChinese and has been translated into more than 30 languages
GenreNovel
PublisherChangjiang Literature and Arts Publishing House
Publication date
April 2004
Publication placeChina
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN7-5354-2730-8
OCLC55622937
LC ClassPL2942.3.A44 L36 2004

Wolf Totem (simplified Chinese: 狼图腾; traditional Chinese: 狼圖騰; pinyin: Láng Túténg) is a 2004 Chinese semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China's Cultural Revolution.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ French, Howard (2005-11-03), "A Novel, by Someone, Takes China by Storm", The New York Times, retrieved 2007-04-20
  2. ^ Bougon, Francois (2008-03-11), "Chinese ex-prisoner now global literary star", The China Post, retrieved 2008-03-14