NPR is running a three-part series to mark the upcoming 60th anniversary of the PRC: As the country approaches its anniversary, NPR asks three of China’s most astute observers for their perspectives. They are best-selling...
In the New York Times book review, four Chinese novels are reviewed. Jonathan Spence reviews Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan; Pankaj Mishra reviews Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong; Francine Prose reviews Song of Everlasting...
From Bloomberg: Reading the jacket blurb on the English version of Jiang Rong’s “Wolf Totem,” you might mistake the book for a call-of-the-wild documentary perfectly suited to animal-loving adolescents. Yet its...
From AFP: Former Chinese political prisoner Lu Jiamin kept his name a secret for a long time, writing his award-winning best-seller “Wolf Totem” under a pseudonym. But after years of commercial success in book stores...
From Bloomberg: Chinese author Jiang Rong won the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize for “Wolf Totem(ÁãºÂõæËÖæ ),” beating four other short-listed authors. The $10,000 award, sponsored by hedge-fund company Man Group Plc, is the first regional prize for a work that hasn’t been published in English. The result was announced last night at a dinner […]
From the New York Times: For the author of one of China’s best-selling novels of recent years, and moreover, one about rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains, Jiang Rong makes a surprisingly timid introduction. “I am sorry, I have no name cards,” said the man meekly as he entered the living room of […]
From the AP, via Las Vegas Sun: The Penguin Group has purchased the English-language rights to China’s best-selling novel, “The Wolf Totem,” for a record $100,000. Jiang Rong’s 2004 Chinese-language novel about the struggle for life on the Mongolian grasslands will be published in English in 2007, An Boshun, Jiang’s agent with Changjiang Literary Art […]
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