Wild Beast () is a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo.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.

It tells the story of Ma Xiaojun (), a son of a military official who roams around Beijing during one summer. He falls in love with a young woman named Mi Lan ().

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 published the English version of the graphic novel."Wild Animals." Yen Press. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.

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