Wolf Totem

Author: Jiang Rong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This is the only book in the world to date that depicts and studies the Mongolian wolf, a "masterpiece of the ages." The book is a seamless flow of dozens of organic and interconnected "wolf stories," with intense, thrilling, and mysterious. Readers can experience an intense sense of reading pleasure from every chapter and detail, making it hard to put down. The clever Mongolian wolves leap out of the pages at any moment: their exceptional skills in reconnaissance, strategy, ambush, and surprise attacks; their skillful use of weather and terrain; their unwavering courage and resilience; the familial bonds within the wolf pack; their relationship with all things on the; the struggles and growth of the adorable young wolves as they struggle to adapt to life without freedom—none of these fail to remind us of humans, prompting us to reflect on the unresolved questions in human history: Why were the mere tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry able to sweep across Europe and Asia? What is the deeper reason for the vast territory of the Chinese nation today? In history, was it the Chinese civilization that conquered the nomadic peoples, or did the nomadic peoples repeatedly "bleed" into the Han Chinese, allowing Chinese civilization to endure? Why do the horse-riding ethnic groups in China, from ancient times to the present, do not worship the horse totem but instead revere the wolf totem? Is the reason why Chinese civilization has never been interrupted the existence of an uninterrupted wolf totem culture in China? Thus, we cannot but reflect and ponder, cannot but face the once glorious and once broken mountains, rivers, and history, and ask: We claim to be descendants of Yan and Huang, but are we aware that the "dragon totem" is very likely to have evolved from the "wolf totem" of the nomadic peoples? Will the "dragon totem worship" of the Chinese nation finally be revealed? Are we the descendants of the dragon, or the descendants of the wolf?