Lü Jiamin

Lü Jiamin (Chinese吕嘉民, Pinyin Lǚ Jiamin, born 1946 in Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese writer and former professor of economic policy. He is married to the very famous writer in China Zhang Kangkang. He has been active since the 1970s in the Xidan movement and participated in the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

His novel The Wrath of Wolves (Chinese狼 图腾, Pinyin Láng Tuteng ), which he published under the name Rong Jiang (姜 戎) in 2004, is a bestseller in China. It is about the life of Chen Zhen, a young man from Beijing who has during the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia lived and worked. There he meets the " ethos of the steppe ", that is, the worldview of its population of nomads know. This worldview is characterized by a strong will to fight for survival, the other by ecological awareness of the need, in the steppe habitat is a natural balance between all plant and animal populations to obtain.

The German sinologist Wolfgang Kubin called the novel in an interview "fascist" and said:

The book was titled Wolf Totem by Howard Goldblatt translated into English under the title The Wrath of Wolves by Karin Hasselblatt into German in 2008.

The book received ten literary prizes, including the Man Asian Literary Prize. Currently, the French director Jean -Jacques Annaud prepares the film adaptation of the novel.

Works

• The wrath of the Wolves, 2008, ISBN 3-442-31108- X, Karin Hasselblatt ( translator )