Wild Beast (novel)

Wild Beast (S: 动物凶猛, T: 動物兇猛, P: Dòngwù Xiōngměng) is a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo.[1]

It stars Ma Xiaojun (S: 马小军, T: 馬小軍, P: 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 (S: 米 兰, T: 米 蘭, P: Mǐ Lán).

Adaptations

The 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 publishes the graphic novel version in English.[2]

References
  1. Choy, Howard Yuen Fung. Remapping the past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979 -1997. BRILL, 2008. 159. Retrieved from Google Books on September 22, 2011.
  2. "Wild Animals." Yen Press. Retrieved on September 22, 2011.


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