By Qiu Xiaolong
“Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically chinese language and it really works like a charm.” --Washington submit booklet World on A Case of 2 Cities
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police division is offered just a little luxurious by way of buddies and supporters in the social gathering – a week’s holiday at a sumptuous lodge close to Lake Tai, a week the place he can chill out, and get better, undisturbed through outdoor calls for or disruptions. regrettably, the as soon as appealing Lake Tai, well known for its transparent waters, is now coated via fetid algae, its waters polluted by way of poisonous runoff from neighborhood production crops. Then the director of 1 of the producing plants responsible for the toxins is murdered and the chief of the neighborhood ecological crew is the first suspect of the neighborhood police. Now Inspector Chen needs to tread conscientiously if he is to discover the truth behind the brutal homicide and discover a degree of justice for either the sufferer and the accused.
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Die chinesische Schrift paBt sich so vorzuglich den sprachlichen Gegebenheiten Chinas an, daB sie unersetzlich ist8. Zur chinesischen Schriftreform und Einflihrung einer Buchstabenschrift siehe den interessanten Artikel ,La Reforme de l'ecriture Chinoise' in: Recherches Internationales a Ia Iumiere du marxisme, 7, Mai/Juni, 1958. Der Verfasser ist Wu Yli-Chang, Vorsitzender des Komitees flir die Reform der chinesischen Schrift. Der Artikel wurde von Andre Levy ins Franzosische li bersetzt. 8 31 4.