Wolf Totem is a novel with wolves as the narrative subject, which tells the story of an educated youth living with coyotes and herders when he jumped the queue in Inner Mongolia grassland in the 1960s and 1970s.

197 1 The first draft was in Dongwuzhumuqin Grassland, Ximeng, Inner Mongolia, and 1997 was finalized in Beijing at the end of 2003 and published in April 2004. After the book was published in China, it was translated into 30 languages and distributed in 1 10 countries and regions around the world. By April of 20 14, it had been reprinted more than 50 times in Chinese mainland, with nearly 5 million copies of the original, ranking among the top 10 best-selling literary books for six consecutive years and winning dozens of awards. There are thousands of research papers and works about Wolf Totem in newspapers and online new media at home and abroad.

The cover design of different versions of Wolf Totem is different. The cover of each edition is shown in the figure.