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Paper Butterfly
Modern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in China's capital city. After her resignation from the Ministry for Public Security, Mei saw her status drop swiftly in the eyes of her former colleagues, her TV-star sister, and even her mother. But sharp, intuitive Mei has taken her valuable experience and her insider knowledge of the police and city politics and set herself up as a successful private investigator. Now, with her own car, her own business, even a male receptionist to reflect her well-to-do status, Mei Wang is ensconced in her own little corner of the biggest city in China. When Mei receives a call from the chief executive at Guanghua Record Company, s...
Lake with No Name
Beijing University, 1986. The Communists were in power, but the Harvard of China was a hotbed of intellectual and cultural activity, with political debates and "English Corners" where students eagerly practiced the language among themselves. Nineteen-year-old Wei had known the oppressive days of the Cultural Revolution, having grown up with her parents in a work camp in a remote region of China. Now, as a student, she was allowed to immerse herself in study and spend her free hours writing poetry -- that bastion of bourgeois intellectualism -- beside the Lake with No Name at the center of campus. It was there that Wei met Dong Yi. Although Wei's love was first subsumed by the deep friendship...
Paper Butterfly
In the outback of China, Lin, a political activist arrested after the Tiananmen massacre, is released. Haunted by memories of his time in prison - and the events and people that put him there - Lin heads for the country's capital to confront his demons. Mei Wang, meanwhile, has been hired to investigate the disappearance of a gorgeous young starlet called Kaili. The subsequent search takes her from Beijing's boulevards and high rises to the old alleys (hutongs) that still exist at the city's edges. When Kaili's corpse is finally found, however, the murder reveals links to the past that force Mei to confront some demons of her own.
The Eye of Jade
This gripping debut novel in a new mystery series features an unforgettable female detective in todays Beijing, whose search for a missing artifact leads her to discover the dishonorable secrets of her nation's culture-and her family's past.
The Eye of Jade
"Having her own detective agency would give her the independence she had always longed for. It would also give her the chance to show those people who shunned her that she could be successful. People were getting rich. They owned property, money, business, and cars. With new freedom and opportunities came new crimes. There would be much that she could do." Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is a modern, independent woman. She has her own apartment. She owns a car. She has her own business with that most modern of commodities -- a male secretary. Her short career with China's prestigious Ministry for Public Security has given her intimate insight into the complicated and arbitrary world of Beijin...
Paper Butterfly
In the outback of China, a political activist, arrested after the Tiananmen massacre, is judged to be a reformed character and released. But Lin is a changed man in more ways than one; haunted by memories of his time in prison, and the events (and people) that put him there, he heads for the country’s capital, where he hopes to confront his demons once and for all. Mei Wang, meanwhile, is struggling to juggle the desires and demands of her family alongside the pressures of running her detective agency, and when her sister recommends her for a new case – the disappearance of a gorgeous young starlet called Kaili – she feels obliged to accept. It’s a risky business, however, investigating the truth in a society that is still catching up with the secrets of its past. 'Mei Wang is a splendid heroine, brave and sensible. As she interviews witnesses and makes her deductions she shows her readers a fascinating glimpse of the China visitors don’t see' Literary Review
China Mysteries
With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction tha...
100 Greatest Literary Detectives
Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator. He—or, increasingly, she—can be a private eye, a police officer, or a general busybody. But whatever forms these investigators take, they are the key element of crime fiction. Criminals and their crimes come and go, while our attention is captured by these fascinating characters who exist at the intersection of so many different literary and social roles. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives offer...
El ojo de jade
La moderna y emprendedora Mei acaba de abrir una agencia privada de detectives en pleno corazón de Pekín. Esta mujer joven es un símbolo evidente del gran cambio cultural y ecónomico que está viviendo China. Al volante de su Mitsubishi rojo, y con un hombre como secretario, Mei está preparada para su nuevo trabajo. Cuando un cliente le pide que encuentre un valioso jade de la dinastía Han sustraído de un museo en plena Revolución Cultural, Mei se verá obligada a profundizar en ese oscuro periodo de la historia de China. La investigación de Mei revela una trama que tiene mucha más relación con el pasado y la historia de su propia familia de lo que podría haber esperado. Esto la llevará a la trastienda de Pekín y a un secreto tan bien guardado que, desenterrarlo, amenazará con destruir lo que Mei consideraba sagrado...
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