Le président Mao est au coeur de l'enquête de l'inspecteur Chen. La petite-fille de sa partenaire de danse est soupçonnée d'être en possession d'un souvenir du Grand Timonier. Le secrétaire du Parti Li veut étouffer l'affaire, et l'inspecteur Chen est amené à infiltrer les réseaux nostalgiques des années 1930, allant jusqu'à fouiller l'ancienne chambre de Mao dans la Cité interdite.

La Danseuse de Mao

Encres de Chine

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 China

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 sang

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since, as a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from within and without, and is unwilling to compromise his principles as a policeman in favor of political expedience.  However, after the new Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally take on a 'special assignment', an investigation already begun by Internal Security, he may no longer be able to resist those pressures. The party, increasingly leery of international embarrassment, is unhappy about two recent books that place Mao in a bad light. Now, Jiao, the granddaughter of an actress who was likely one of Mao's mistresses—a woman suspected of being Mao's own granddaughter—has recently quit her job, moved into a luxury apartment, and, without any visible means of support, become a part of  a new social set centered around the remnants of pre-Communist Shanghai society. What they fear is that, somehow, she has inherited some artifact or material related to Mao that will, when made public, prove embarrassing. Even though there is no evidence that such even exists, Chen has been charged to infiltrate her social circle, determine if the feared material exists and, if it does, retrieve it quietly. And in only a few days—because if he can't resolve this 'Mao case' within the deadline, the party will resort to harsher, more deadly means.

La danseuse de Mao

Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties—all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square—history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.

Cité de la Poussière Rouge

" C'est une invention bien connue de conspirer contre le Parti avec des romans ", a dit le président Mao. Un précepte que méditent les habitants de la cité lorsque monsieur Ma, le libraire, est arrêté un soir de l'hiver 1962. Son crime ? Posséder dans ses rayons un roman étranger à propos d'un certain docteur russe. Sa peine ? Trente ans d'emprisonnement pour " activités contre-révolutionnaires ". Vingt ans plus tard, Ma est libéré. La Révolution culturelle est loin, Mao est mort, les autorités encouragent l'initiative privée. Que pourrait faire le vieux Ma après tant d'années de prison ? Contre toute attente, son nouveau commerce est un succès. Une reconversion à mille lieues de la littérature. Quoique...

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