Wild Beast (simplified Chinese: 动物凶猛; traditional Chinese: 動物兇猛; pinyin: Dòngwù Xiōngměng) is a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo.[1]
It tells the story of Ma Xiaojun (马小军; 馬小軍; Mǎ Xiǎojūn), a son of a military official who roams around Beijing during one summer. He falls in love with a young woman named Mi Lan (米兰; 米蘭; Mǐ Lán).
Adaptations
editThe 1994 film version, titled In the Heat of the Sun, was directed by Wen Jiang.
Chinese artist Song Yang adopted the novel as Wild Animals, a graphic novel. Yen Press published the English version of the graphic novel.[2]
References
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- ^ Choy, Howard Yuen Fung. Remapping the past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979 -1997. BRILL, 2008. 159. Retrieved from Google Books on 22 September 2011.
- ^ "Wild Animals." Yen Press. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
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