The Tang and Song Dynasties of China are often referred to as the high points of culture in the history of Chinese civilization. The hundred poems featured in this booka carefully selected by translator and literature scholar...more details Format:Paperback Pages:232
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312374662
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But Xing left behind his organization...more details Format:Paperback Pages:307
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9781569473412
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"A sequel to "Death of a Red Heroine"] that in many ways is even more impressive. . . . Qiu] has moved from the poetic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:351
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897539
'Another wonderful novel' - Washington Post - in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Chen crime series.Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340898710
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation - one where the principle figure and his family have long since fled to the United States...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340898529
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. The tentacles have spread through the police force...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. The tentacles have spread through the police force...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9781569472422
In this Anthony Award-winning debut, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. "A Loyal Character Dancer "is the latest in Qiu's Shanghai series featuring Inspector Chen.
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897492
Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
Prizewinning debut of an extraordinary new voice in crime writing.Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:480
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897515
Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:480
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312550646
""Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --"Washington Post Book World" on" A Case of Two Cities Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party - a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897522
Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312371074
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often put in charge of politically sensitive cases. Having recently ruffled more than a few official feathers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:310
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340935163
When a young girl is found murdered wearing nothing but a torn red mandarin dress, it does not completely surprise Detective Yu. Possibly one of those material girls fallen foul of the triads or a dangerous Mr Big Bucks. Lying low after a corruption investigation that could have tainted him badly politically...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340935170
When a young girl is found murdered wearing nothing but a torn red mandarin dress, it does not completely surprise Detective Yu. Possibly one of those material girls fallen foul of the triads or a dangerous Mr Big Bucks. Lying low after a corruption investigation that could have tainted him badly politically...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312539696
A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer's calling card is to leave the victims' bodies in well trafficked locations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:310
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340935187
Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312601232
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since...more details Format:Paperback Pages:289
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312538743
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:289
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897560
When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897553
When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
"Another wonderful novel featuring Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau for Sinophiles like myself who fantasize about taking an insider's tour of Shanghai."-Maureen Corrigan...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780340897577
The third Inspector Chen investigation, set in 1990s Shanghai, a time of whirlwind change for the city and its people....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312628093
Published originally in the pages of "Le Monde, "this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France "(Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) "and Germany "(Das Tor zur Roten Gasse)...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:227
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Qiu Xiaolong
ISBN:9780312609252
Published originally in the pages of "Le Monde, "this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France "(Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) "and Germany "(Das Tor zur Roten Gasse)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:227
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Qiu Xiaolong;Qui Xiaolong
ISBN:9781569473016
Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catharine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:368
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XIAOLONG QIU
ISBN:9780340978597
Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by rich businessmen and high-ranking members of the Communist Party. All except one. The owner is an old painter who holds a glittering party each night: swing jazz plays for his former neighbours...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304