Cry wolf

Critics have described the film Wolf Totem as a distortion of Mongolian culture, Xing Yi reports.

A prominent ethnically Mongolian Chinese writer has slammed the movie Wolf Totem, directed by Jean Jacques Annaud from France, as being inaccurate and a "distortion of our Mongolian culture".

"The wolf has never been a totem of the Mongolian people," Guo Xuebo, an ethnic Mongolian novelist and a member of China Writer's Association, wrote on his microblog on Feb 18, the day before the movie, which is based on a book of the same name, was released.