Shanghai Redemption

Shanghai Redemption PDF Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250065275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
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.

Enigma of China

Enigma of China PDF Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125002580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The eighth novel in Qiu Xiaolong's acclaimed Chinese crime series sees Inspector Chen confronted by a terrible choice between Party politics or his principles - with his career at stake

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption PDF Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668084988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Originally published in 1982 in Different Seasons by Viking.

Reel Views 2

Reel Views 2 PDF Author: James Berardinelli
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
ISBN: 1932112405
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 627

Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

Shanghai Faithful

Shanghai Faithful PDF Author: Jennifer Lin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144225694X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world’s most populous nation. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. Five generations of the Lin family—buffeted by history’s crosscurrents and personal strife—bring to life an epoch that is still unfolding. A compelling cast—a poor fisherman, a doctor who treated opium addicts, an Ivy League–educated priest, and the charismatic preacher Watchman Nee—sets the bookin motion. Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today’s China. The Lin family—and the book’s central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi—offer witness to China’s tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family’s resolute faith led to years of suffering. Forgiveness and redemption bring the story full circle. With its sweep of history and the intimacy of long-hidden family stories, Shanghai Faithful offers a fresh look at Christianity in China—past, present, and future.

Shanghai Redemption

Shanghai Redemption PDF Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473616816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
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.

Detectives

Detectives PDF Author: Graham Collins
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 9877440792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
Detective fiction, both soft-boiled and hard-boiled, is in vogue. Its protagonists are widely known, they have become icons who have as many fans as the most popular actors and singers. This amazing list includes all the greatest detectives of all times: from the intuitive Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allan Poe, to the duo of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, created by Stieg Larsson, and explores their personal profiles and investigation methods.

The Conspiracies of the Empire

The Conspiracies of the Empire PDF Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448314828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
The legendary Judge Dee Renjie returns, in this lyrical combination of mystery, history and ancient Chinese politics from the author of the renowned Inspector Chen mysteries In Tang dynasty China, Empress Wu - seductive, ambitious and vindictive - rules with an iron fist. Her premier minister, Judge Dee Renjie, is honored to be trusted by her. But when she orders him to carry out an urgent investigation into the disappearance of disgraced poet Luo Binwang, he can't see why the matter is of such vital importance. Luo Binwang joined a doomed uprising against Her Majesty, and vanished after the final, bloody battle. Is he missing - or dead? Either way, now that the rebellion has been mercilessly quashed, what harm could a poor, elderly poet do? Traveling out of the great capital of Chang'an, accompanied by his loyal manservant Yang, Judge Dee launches a painstaking investigation, in the hopes of achieving what the empress' secret police could not. But the journey is marred by ill omens, and with death and disaster following his every step, Judge Dee soon begins to wonder if the empress trusts him as much as he thought . . . This powerful mystery, set in ancient China, will appeal to fans of Robert Van Gulik's novels featuring the semi-fictional historical character Judge Dee, and includes an appendix of poems from some of China's finest Tang dynasty poets, newly translated by the author, who is an award-wining poet and critic in his own right.
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