Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has sold millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market), outpacing everything except Maos Little Red Book. The novel draws on the authors experience during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Chen Zhen, a Beijing college student, volunteers to work in Chinas remote Inner Mongolia region as part of a movement to modernize the countryside. As he admires the balanced lifestyle of the nomadic herdsmen there, he also grows fascinated by the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. But when government policies threaten the wolves extinction, he sees an unfolding ecological tragedyand a parable for Chinas explosive growth.
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Es el seudónimo de un escritor y disidente político que se inspiró en los años que pasó conviviendo con pastores nómadas en la pradera mongola para escribir una novela que ha sido un fenómeno literario en China,y que ya está siéndolo también en Occidente.