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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, yes and no. Readers may find some of Jiang's purplest prose indigestible. "Desperate cries rose from the herd as the wolves tore into one horse after another - sides and chests spurted blood, the stench of which drove the crazed predators to commit acts of frenzied cruelty," is his description of a wolf attack on a herd of prize horses. "The raw meat in their mouths meant nothing to the wolves: only the murderous tearing of horseflesh mattered." More problematically, the book contains puzzling chunks in which Jiang details his pet theory: that thousands of years of farming have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pack Man | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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