Wolf Totem’s “Fake Culture Forced on Mongolians”
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports criticism of the “fake” Mongolian...
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Wolf Totem Author, Director Brought in From the Cold
The Economist notes the rehabilitation of the author of 2004 novel “Wolf Totem” and...
Censors Gave Carte Blanche, Says ‘Wolf Totem’ Director
The French director of Wolf Totem, an adaptation of Lu Jiamin’s 2004 novel, says that...
Four Chinese Novels Reviewed
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...
Chinese Wolves Slip the Leash in Jiang Rong’s Nationalist Novel
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...
Chinese Ex-prisoner Now Global Literary Star
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...
China’s Jiang Rong Wins First $10,000 Man Asian Literary Prize – Adam Majendie
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 […]
The Chinese cinema industry: China’s cultural revolution – David Eimer
From the Independent: …With Beijing due to host the 2008 Olympics, the next few years are being seen as offering China a chance to show that it is more than just the world’s centre of manufacturing industry. Films will play a major part in that drive, but they are not the only focus. China has […]
A Novel, by Someone, Takes China by Storm – Howard W. French (UPDATED)
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 […]
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