Bibliograph

Wolf totem, Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt

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Wolf totem, Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wolf totem

Oclc number

166359947

Responsibility statement

Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt

Summary

The story of Chen Zhen, a Beijing 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 passive hero

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