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Voyagez aux côtés d'un inspecteur de police avisé naviguant dans le paysage complexe de Shanghai, où les traditions anciennes entrent en collision avec le pouls de la vie moderne. Chaque affaire se déroule comme un puzzle complexe, profondément enraciné dans la riche tapisserie culturelle de la Chine. Cette série offre un mélange captivant de mystère, d'exploration culturelle et d'observation fine de la nature humaine, alors que la justice est recherchée par l'intellect et l'empathie.

Inspector Chen - 6: The Mao Case
De soie et de sang
Le très corruptible mandarin
An Inspector Chen Investigation - 3: When Red Is Black
A Loyal Character Dancer
Death of a Red Heroine

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  1. Death of a Red Heroine

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9781569472422 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.

    Death of a Red Heroine1
    3,5

  2. A Loyal Character Dancer

    • 360pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    Inspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai’s beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member.

    A Loyal Character Dancer2
    3,9

  3. An Inspector Chen Investigation - 3: When Red Is Black

    • 310pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can’t refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune—with no apparent strings attached— he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the “glitter and glamour” of the 1930s. It is up to Detective Yu, Chen’s partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin’s life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system.

    An Inspector Chen Investigation - 3: When Red Is Black3
    3,6

  4. Le très corruptible mandarin

    • 374pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Passe-droits. Combines. Faveurs « spéciales ». Voilà les mots clé du nouveau fléau de la Chine post-communiste: la corruption. Et lorsque celle-ci touche les nouveaux « mandarins », il est quasi impossible de s'y opposer. Les autorités se contentent « d'écraser les moustiques, sans se soucier des tigres », car l'intérêt supérieur du Parti prime. ?Mais le camarade inspecteur Chen ne l'entend pas ainsi quand il prend en main l'enquête sur le meurtre, dans une maison close de Shanghai, d'un policier chargé d'enquêter sur l'entourage de Xing Xing. Ce magnat de la finance et cadre du Parti, suspecté de corruption, s'est enfui aux États-Unis. Chen n'hésite pas à remonter les filières des affairistes rouges jusqu'au pays de l'Oncle Sam...

    Le très corruptible mandarin4
    3,7

  5. De soie et de sang

    • 331pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Impossible d'étouffer l'affaire : la deuxième victime a été trouvée ce matin, en plein centre-ville. Même mise en scène que pour la première : robe de soie rouge, pieds nus, jupe relevée, pas de sous-vêtement. Le tueur signe son oeuvre avec audace et la presse s'en régale. C'est ce qui inquiète l'inspecteur Chen : pour s'exposer si dangereusement, le coupable doit avoir un plan diabolique...

    De soie et de sang5
    3,8

  6. Inspector Chen - 6: The Mao Case

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department heads the Special Case group, often handling politically sensitive investigations due to his rising status in the party. A poet at heart, he takes his role seriously and resists compromising his principles for political gain. However, pressure mounts when the new Minister of Public Security assigns him a 'special assignment' related to an ongoing Internal Security investigation. The party is concerned about two recent books that cast Mao in a negative light, particularly regarding Jiao, the granddaughter of a woman suspected to be one of Mao's mistresses. Jiao has quit her job, moved into a luxury apartment, and integrated into a social circle that echoes pre-Communist Shanghai. The party fears she may possess an artifact linked to Mao that could cause embarrassment if revealed. Despite the lack of evidence for such material, Chen is tasked with infiltrating her circle to uncover the truth and retrieve any potentially damaging items discreetly. Time is of the essence, as failure to resolve this 'Mao case' within the given deadline could lead the party to resort to more severe measures.

    Inspector Chen - 6: The Mao Case6
    3,4

  7. Les courants fourbes du lac Tai

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    “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, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its clear waters, is now covered by fetid algae, its waters polluted by toxic runoff from local manufacturing plants. Then the director of one of the manufacturing plants responsible for the pollution is murdered and the leader of the local ecological group is the primary suspect of the local police. Now Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and find a measure of justice for both the victim and the accused.

    Les courants fourbes du lac Tai7
    3,7

  8. Cyber China

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation—a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine. Now he’s a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the top politic position in the police department, while being one of most respected policeman in the department. Which is why he’s brought in by the Party to sign off on the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng. Zhou Keng—a trusted princeling, son of a major party member—was head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee when a number of his corrupt practices were exposed on the internet. Removed from his position and placed into extra-legal detention, Zhou apparently hanged himself while under guard. While the Party is anxious to have Zhou’s death declared a suicide, and for the renowned Chief Inspector Chen to sign off on that conclusion, the sequence of events don’t quite add up. Now Chen will have to decide what to do—investigate the death as a possible homicide and risk angering unseen powerful people, or seek the justice that his position requires him to strive for.

    Cyber China8
    3,9

  9. Shanghai Redemption

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. 'The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did.' For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the demands made by his job. He was considered a rising star until, after one too many controversial cases that embarrassed powerful men, he found himself neutralised. Under the guise of a promotion, he's been stripped of his title and his influence, discredited and isolated. Soon it becomes clear that his enemies still aren't satisfied, and that someone is attempting to have him killed - quietly. Chen has been charged with the investigation into a 'Red Prince' - a high Party figure who embodies the ruthless ambition, greed and corruption that is on the rise in China. But with no power, few allies, and his own reputation and life on the line, he knows he is facing the most dangerous case of his career.

    Shanghai Redemption9
    3,7

  10. Chine, retiens ton souffle

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    L'inspecteur Chen est chargé d'une affaire de meurtre en série lorsqu'il est appelé à se pencher sur des écologistes tentant de lutter contre la pollution en Chine. Le chef inspecteur Chen et le détective Yu Guangming sont impliqués dans une affaire de meurtre en série que l'équipe des homicides n'arrive pas à résoudre. Mais avant que Chen puisse commencer, un membre haut placé du Parti lui confie une mission spéciale : infiltrer un groupe d'activistes environnementaux qui se réunit pour discuter des niveaux de pollution dans le pays et des moyens de pousser le gouvernement à agir. Chen sait que cette tâche ne sera pas simple, surtout lorsqu'il découvre que la leader du groupe est une femme de son passé. Pendant ce temps, Yu doit enquêter sur l'affaire de meurtre en série seul. Chen et Yu subissent tous deux des pressions de la part de leurs supérieurs pour résoudre les affaires de manière satisfaisante, même si cela signifie que des innocents doivent en subir les conséquences.

    Chine, retiens ton souffle10
    3,7