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Title details for China Trade by S. J. Rozan - Available

China Trade

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by S. J. Rozan
Christine Marshall
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Asian-American private investigator Lydia Chin knows New York City's Chinatown, its people, and its ways as no outsider ever could. It's a city within a city, a rich melange of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families—a world all its own. And in all of Chinatown, there is no one like Lydia, who has a nose for trouble, a disapproving Chinese mother, and a partner named Bill Smith who's been living above a bar for sixteen years. Hired to find some precious stolen porcelain, Lydia follows a trail of clues from highbrow art dealers into a world of Chinese gangs. Suddenly, this case has become as complex as her community itself—and as deadly as a killer on the loose.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bill Smith / Lydia Chin

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    July 1, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792749714
      • File size: 271920 KB
      • Duration: 09:26:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 690
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The setting of this entertaining mystery, New York's Chinatown, with its food, its smells, its street hoods, and its clan leaders, is not its only strength, but is certainly its greatest one. Beautiful PI Lydia Chin is hired to solve a theft of antique porcelains from a struggling Chinatown museum, a puzzle with pieces scattered all over New York. Christine Marshall is wonderful with the Chinese-American accents but considerably less strong with the inevitable others, and she has a tendency to place emphasis so oddly that you wonder if she is aware of what the sentences mean, or only of the individual words. This is not fatal to the fun to be had here, though. Lydia's implacable Chinese mother is alone worth the price of admission. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 3, 1994
      Rozan's debut novel, focusing both on china, the porcelain, and on the homeland of many inhabitants of New York City's Chinatown, introduces likable Asian-American PI, Lydia Chin. Lydia, hired by the Chinatown Pride museum to recover stolen antique porcelains, confronts the leaders of rival Chinatown gangs in hopes of flushing out the robbers. With information gleaned from a meek scholar who habitually steals tiny porcelains from prominent collections, Lydia discovers an antiquities-laundering business that crosses all socioeconomic strata. Her sidekick, full-time sleuth Bill Smith, provides an element of sexual tension; the resolution hinges on a silly scheme in which Lydia sets herself up to be attacked by a hit man and rescued by her cooperative NYPD pals. Rozan shows a knack for characterizing Chinatown's denizens, apothecaries, shops and food, but her story has more flavor than substance.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:690
  • Text Difficulty:3

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