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Mei Wang
Simon & Schuster
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Featuring: Mei Wang
272 pages
ISBN: 1416549552
EAN: 9781416549550
Hardcover
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"Having her own detective agency would give her the
independence she had always longed for. It would also give
her the chance to show those people who shunned her that
she could be successful. People were getting rich. They
owned property, money, business, and cars. With new
freedom and opportunities came new crimes. There would be
much that she could do."Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is
a modern, independent woman. She has her own apartment.
She owns a car. She has her own business with that most
modern of commodities -- a male secretary. Her short
career with China's prestigious Ministry for Public
Security has given her intimate insight into the
complicated and arbitrary world of Beijing's law
enforcement. But it is her intuition, curiosity, and her
uncanny knack for listening to things said -- and unsaid --
that make Mei Beijing's first successful female private
investigator. Mei is no stranger to the dark side of
China. She was six years old when she last saw her father
behind the wire fence of one of Mao's remote labor camps.
Perhaps as a result, Mei eschews the power plays and
cultural mores -- guanxi -- her sister and mother
live by...for better and for worse. Mei's family
friend "Uncle" Chen hires her to find a Han dynasty jade
of great value: he believes the piece was looted from the
Luoyang Museum during the Cultural Revolution -- when the
Red Guards swarmed the streets, destroying so many traces
of the past -- and that it's currently for sale on the
black market. The hunt for the eye of jade leads Mei
through banquet halls and back alleys, seedy gambling dens
and cheap noodle bars near the Forbidden City. Given the
jade's provenance and its journey, Mei knows to treat the
investigation as a most delicate matter; she cannot know,
however, that this case will force her to delve not only
into China's brutal history, but also into her family's
dark secrets and into her own tragic separation from the
man she loved in equal parts. The first novel in an
exhilarating new detective series, The Eye of Jade
is both a thrilling mystery and a sensual and fascinating
journey through modern China.
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