by Qiu Xiaolong · Hodder & Stoughton Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340978597
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«The Mao Case» is a crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Hodder & Stoughton Limited in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Inspector Chen investigates an old painter who lives in an old Shanghai mansion and hosts nightly parties; suspicions point to blackmail and the triad. After the murder of a young woman, the investigation leads to a secret about Mao Zedong that the Party is willing to conceal.
It is the sixth instalment in the Inspector Chen Cao series, originally published in 2009; the novel was adapted as a radio drama by BBC Radio 4.
For readers of crime and detective fiction seeking police plots in contemporary China with a political backdrop.
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic. Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
