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Death of a Red Heroine
- Inspector Chen Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Series: Inspector Chen Series, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 12-19-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $34.99
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Publisher's Summary
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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- Donna S. Denio
- Winchester, MA United States
- 05-09-18
Murder, politics and poetry
Slow start, but as the story unfolds the mementum builds. The Chief Inspector is a likable character, a poet at heart and also very committed to solving the murder case.
I gained a lot of insight on the culture and values in China.
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- Cosmy H.
- 04-17-18
Exhausting
So much for western bourgeois decadence- sex sells
I wouldn’t recommend this book other than a slight glimpse of what is headed down the road for cultural reassignment in the good old us of a
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- Anna E.
- 01-25-18
interesting insight into Chinese an Chines Culture
The book was a nice peek into Chinese culture and how PRC society functions. The ending had a different version of a plot twist; but nevertheless, it illustrated well how the government twist things to continue it's control over the population. The added literary references an added bonus.
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