jiang rong – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:19:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Wolf Totem on NPR /College/translation/threepercent/2009/05/26/wolf-totem-on-npr/ /College/translation/threepercent/2009/05/26/wolf-totem-on-npr/#respond Tue, 26 May 2009 16:06:32 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2009/05/26/wolf-totem-on-npr/ Over the next few days, NPR’s Morning Edition is going to be featuring Chinese writers, as a part of their ‘China at 60’ series that’s looking at the history of the People’s Republic.

This morning Jiang Rong, the author of , which Howard Goldblatt translated and Penguin published last year.

The 2004 best-selling book Wolf Totem is said to be second in circulation in China only to Chairman Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book. The author, Jiang Rong, 63, is an unusual hero for the country: a child of the revolution who became a democracy activist. His novel is a thinly veiled political fable about freedom.

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