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Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career-perhaps even his life-to see justice done.… (mais)
JuliaMaria: Klassiker der chinesischen Literatur. Wird gerne in den Romanen von Qiu Xiaolong zitiert. Ist das Lieblingsbuch der Frau des Assistenten von Inspector Chen. Unbedingt lesenswert - beide!
The mystery is good but the main appeal of this police procedural is seeing something of life in Shanghai China in 1990 for mid-level people. Chen & his poetry reminds me a bit of P.D. James’ Dalgliesh... ( )
Un viernes de mayo de 1990, Gao Ziling, capitán de la patrullera Vanguardia, sale a pescar con un amigo al que no veía desde la época del instituto. De regreso, en el canal Baili, a unos treinta kilómetros al oeste de Shanghai, algo impide el avance de la patrullera. Cuando Gao se lanza al agua para ver qué le ocurre a la hélice, descubre una gran bolsa de plástico negra y, en su interior, el cadáver de una joven desnuda. El capitán Gao avisa de inmediato a la policía y, casualmente, atiende su llamada el subinspector Yu, quien trabaja a las órdenes del inspector jefe Chen. Éste, recién ascendido y tras estrenar piso, no tardará en descubrir que la joven, empleada de los grandes almacenes Número Uno de Shanghai, era una trabajadora modélica cuya entrega a la causa del Partido la convirtió en una celebridad. Ahora debe investigar qué se oculta detrás de la muerte de esa «heroína roja».
Okay, this one took some doing but I finished. ☑️ I had some difficulties with how rigid the language was, however, it makes some sense in the context of the story. Then there were sooo many random poems, couplets, and stanzas littered through out. ( )
This book, ostensibly a murder mystery, deals with a surprising array of existential and societal issues. A police procedural mostly set in Shanghai, it also explores characters torn between their own priorities and those imposed on them by their government. We are also given a glimpse of how Western influences are starting to impact Chinese society. With a huge, culturally diverse cast of characters (nota bene: keep a list), we are provided a fascinating insight into the lives of people from a wide range of levels within the Communist Party. The Party is almost a character of its own as it pervades the story and impacts the characters’ decisions. Compelling and gritty. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Deep as the Peach Blossom Lake can be, it is not so deep as the song you sing for me. — Li Bai
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The body was found at 4:40 P.M., on May 11, 1990, in Baili Canal, an out-of-the-way canal, about twenty miles to the west of Shanghai.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the words of the poem his father had taught him, a son's return for his mother's love is always inadequate, and so is one's responsibility to the country: Who says that the splendor of a grass blade returns The love of the spring that forever returns?
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career-perhaps even his life-to see justice done.
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