A section in Red Sorghum that's about dogs - but not for dog lovers

Section 3 (of 5) in Mo Yan's 1988 novel, Red Sorghum, is called "Dog Ways" - but it's not for dog lovers! I've never read such a brutal account of canine behavior. In this section MY depiicts the small Chinese village of Gaimo (apparently, a city in Shandong province, SE of Beijing; not in Manchuria as I'd mistakenly surmised and posted previously; it's also MY's home town) in 1939, following a massacre by the occupying Japanese army (aided by a Chinese "puppet" army, as he calls it) that leaves only a handful of survivors, including the narrator's father and grandfather (the resistance leader Yu). With the battleground littered w/ bleeding corpses, the "dogs of war" are let loose, and MY gives a graphic account of the rival dog packs and leaders, fighting over the corpses, and the attempts of the few surviving people to eradicate the dog packs. There are some obvious parallels between canine and human behavior in time of war, and afterwards. This section includes a dog attack on the narrator's grandfather that is so gruesome that I had to skim, as I think most readers will do. This novel remains as a terrific piece of historical fiction, told through the vantage point of a single family through multiple generations - yet the vivid descriptions may be unbearable for many potential readers; I have in previous posts compared this novel w/ the work of Garcia Marquez, and I think the comparison still stands, but as I go deeper into Red Sorghum it becomes obvious why his work is less popular and lesser known among English-language readers: it's a love story and a family saga but far more brutal and graphic than anything that GM ever wrote.