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Het karakter van de draak (2009)

door Qiu Xiaolong

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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and his family have long since fled to the United States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged - and it is a job he cannot refuse - with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots. In a twisting case that reunites him with his counterpart from the US Marshals service - Inspector Catherine Rohn - Chen must find a measure of justice in a corrupt, expedient world.… (meer)
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    Het rode bordeel op zoek naar het moderne China door Oliver August (teaperson)
    teaperson: A Case of Two Cities is a fictional mystery that appears to be loosely based on the case described in Inside the Red Mansion. Both explore similar themes of the changes in contemporary China.
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A much more wobbly and erratic plot, but one with likely parallels to the author's life. ( )
  mattbonner | Feb 25, 2024 |
3.5*
I really like Chen Cao. In this 4th entry in the series, Chen is asked to work on a case of corruption with connections very high up in the government. The realities of both the difficulties in investigating and the likelihood that most of the high ranking officials involved will end up getting away with it, though well portrayed, were depressing.

I did like the fact that Chen met up with U.S. Marshal Catherine Rhon once again during his visit to the U.S. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
El caso de las dos ciudades es el cuarto título de la saga que ha hecho célebre a Xiaolong, y uno de los más logrados. En esta ocasión el inspector Chen Cao, de la policía de Shanghai, ha de investigar la corrupción propiciada por las recientes reformas económicas, que alcanza a las altas instancias del Partido Comunista. El anterior encargado de dicha tarea fue hallado muerto en un burdel, tras ingerir una gran dosis de una variedad de "viagra chino". Las pesquisas de Chen le llevarán hasta Estados Unidos al frente de una delegación de escritores en visita de intercambio cultural y tras la pista de Xing Sing, un magnate que huyó para evitar su procesamiento.
  Natt90 | Nov 9, 2022 |
Inspector Chen is assigned to look into the contacts of Xing Xing, a corrupt official who has fled with his ill-gotten gains to the United States in an attempt to claim political asylum.

Although I enjoyed the previous books in this series, I didn't really get on with this one and often found myself making excuses not to pick it up. I don't think I will be continuing with the series. ( )
  Robertgreaves | Dec 19, 2021 |
Xiaolong's Inspector Chen series offers a fantastic blend of character, atmosphere, and mystery, with all of the books being anchored in poetry and attention to the details of Chinese culture in Shanghai, especially when it comes to food and custom. This is the fourth book in the series, and was somewhat of a departure from the earlier books in the series. Where earlier books felt more centrally focused on a mystery, this one ranged across multiple cases/concerns (multiple continents, even), and seemed just as focused on attending to Chen's character and the literary aspect of the series. That took some getting used to, I admit--it wasn't exactly what I'd expected upon picking up the book--but I ended up enjoying it. And, as always, Xiaolong's inclusions of poetry made the book that much richer, even if it sometimes stretched believability that they'd come so easily to the characters' minds.

I would say that, so far, this book is an outlier in the series, and that readers would definitely want to start with the first three books. The other caveat is that it feels like this book ends on less firm footing than normal, and leads directly into the next book--to the extent that it almost feels like this is a two-parter more than a stand-alone in some ways. I'll be making a point of picking up the next book sooner than later because of it, but regardless, I certainly recommend the series. ( )
  whitewavedarling | Dec 29, 2020 |
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Hornfeck, SusanneVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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In memory of Mona van Duyn
1921-2004

Out of the train window,
the gaping windows of the buildings
are telling stories all along the line,
about the past, the present, and the future.
I am not the teller of the stories,
nor the audience,
simply passing through there,
then, full of ignorance,
so full of imagination.

The high tension cables
outline the score of the evening.

Simply passing there,
then -- "Next stop is Halle."


*I wrote the poem during a trip in Germany, looking out of the train window, when I was seized by an inexplicable sadness, and upon my return to the States, I learned about the death of my friend, Mona Van Duyn.
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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and his family have long since fled to the United States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged - and it is a job he cannot refuse - with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots. In a twisting case that reunites him with his counterpart from the US Marshals service - Inspector Catherine Rohn - Chen must find a measure of justice in a corrupt, expedient world.

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