Lü Jiamin

Lü Jiamin ( Chinese  呂嘉民 , Pinyin Lǚ Jiāmín , * 1946 in Jiangsu , China) is a Chinese writer and former professor of economic policy. He is married to the Chinese writer Zhang Kangkang . He had been active in the Xidan movement since the 1970s and took part in the demonstrations in Tian'anmen Square in 1989 .

His novel The Wrath of the Wolves ( Chinese  狼 圖騰 , Pinyin Láng Túténg ), which he published in 2004 under the name Jiāng Róng ( 姜 戎 ), is a bestseller in China . It is about the life of Chen Zhen, a young man from Beijing who lived and worked in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution . There he learns the " ethos of the steppe ", i. H. the worldview of the nomads living there. This world view is characterized by a strong will to struggle for survival, on the other hand by an ecological awareness of the need to maintain a natural balance between all plant and animal populations in the steppe habitat.

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

“The novel (...) is a bad copy of Jack London (...), whose books Jiang Rong (...) saved from burning during the Cultural Revolution. His ideology reflects the social Darwinism of novels such as White Fang (...) - an ideology that seems completely out of date in a globalized world that emphasizes cooperation and not the survival of the fittest. "

The book was translated into English in 2008 by Howard Goldblatt under the title Wolf Totem and into German by Karin Hasselblatt under the title Der Zorn der Wölfe .

The book received ten literary prizes, including the Man Asian Literary Prize . In 2015, the French director Jean-Jacques Annaud filmed the novel under the title The Last Wolf .

Works

• Der Zorn der Wolfe , 2008, ISBN 3-442-31108-X , Karin Hasselblatt (translator)

Web links

• Literature by and about Lü Jiamin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Höge: According to the law of the wolves . In: taz , February 12, 2007.
• Jürgen Kremb: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Beijing's unwanted best seller. In: Spiegel Online - international , March 21, 2006.
• Andreas Lorenz: I am against shock therapy . In: Spiegel Online , January 13, 2009 (interview with Lü Jiamin).
• Wieland Freund : A Chinese settles accounts with Mao - and becomes a millionaire In: Die Welt , January 5th, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 平心: 德国 汉学 权威 另一 只 眼看 现 当代 中国 文学 Deutsche Welle , November 26, 2006.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Kubin: The translator "in brackets" ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Goethe Institute (China) , September 2009.
3. ↑ Jürgen Kremb: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Beijing's Unwanted Best Seller. Der Spiegel, March 21, 2006 (viewed May 3, 2008)
4. ↑ 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Announced ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Man Asian Literary Prize (viewed May 3, 2008)