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Wolf Totem

Jiang Rong,

Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

Finish date: February 29, 2012

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Dec 26, 2015 Tanya rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016-around-the-world

The book explores the relationship/balance between the Mongol hearders and wolves on the Mongolian steppe.

It is told from the perspective of a young Chinese student sent to work with the herders and raises questions about the modernisation brought about by the expansion of the ethnic Chinese into the outer reaches of post-war China and the invariable impact to local culture and the environment.

The subject material is not always comfortable, particular the treatment of wolves, but overall it wa ...more

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Oct 25, 2011 Diane Nagatomo rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novels-about-china

It took me two weeks to finish this book--partly because I was busy with other things, and partly because this book was deep and slow-going. My student from Inner Mongolia gave me this book to read--and I was glad to get a glimpse into the world of the Grassland Mongolians. This book is much more than about wolves--but about the human spirit, human connectivity to nature, and human destruction. I would say that this is one of the best books I've ever read--but I don't know if I would read it twi ...more

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Oct 15, 2009 Patricia rated it really liked it

Importance of wolves in steppe culture; importance of steppe culture to China.

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Nov 14, 2012 Barbarac added it · review of another edition

Shelves: couldn-t-finish, around-the-world, asia, atw15, tbr2015

I'm a huge fan of The Call of the Wild and White Fang but couldn't get into this one. Or not that I couldn't get it into it, but it was so long, after I while I didn't want to get back to it. ...more

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