Jiang Rong

Jiang Rong
Chinese	姜戎
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāng Róng
Lü Jiamin
Chinese	呂嘉民
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǚ Jiāmín

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiāng Róng

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lǚ Jiāmín

Lü Jiamin (born 1946 in Jiangsu), better known by his pseudonym Jiang Rong, is a Chinese writer, most famous for his best-selling 2004 novel Wolf Totem, which he wrote under the pseudonym Jiang Rong. He is married to fellow novelist Zhang Kangkang.

Lü's parents both came from Jiading, a town outside of Shanghai. They both joined the Communist Party of China in Shanghai in the 1920s, and both his parents served in the army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, fighting against the Empire of Japan. After the war, his mother became involved in education, while his father rose to the position of bureau chief in the Ministry of Health. His mother died of cancer when he was just 11.

Lü first attracted negative attention from the authorities as early as 1964, while still a student; he was denounced as "counter-revolutionary" for an essay he had written. He went on to join Red Guards, even though his father had been targeted by those same Red Guards as a capitalist roader; however, when the Red Guards began confiscating books and participating in book burnings, Lü often secreted the books away, adding them to his own private collection. In 1967, as a 21-year-old high school graduate, Lü volunteered to go as a "sent-down youth" to East Ujimqin Banner in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, where he remained for eleven years, until the age of 33. By his own admission, he chose the remote location of Inner Mongolia rather than the more popular Heilongjiang in Northeastern China so that he could bring his books with him; he feared that if we went to Heilongjiang, he would have to live in army barracks, and might get his books confiscated.

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