Comrade Chief Detective Chen Cao is thrown by Party Secretary Li into a bloody intrigue. From a history/travelogue point of view, the Shanghay that emerges from the novel is quite confusing: Chen has a black Mercedes with driver yet lives in a one room apartment; the political and police elite are blood brothers of the entertainment (prostitution) business snakeheads; the only thing that motivates the Chinese Government (apart from stealing as much as they can) is keeping face vis-a-vis foreigners and rivals. The novel is full of descriptions of revolting banquets of live snakes and poems of winds and clouds that leave me cold. Passion and sex are absent:
THIS IS CHINA!
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Passion and sex are absent: THIS IS CHINA!
Arabian Passion for War
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000292/Men-allowed-sex-slaves-female-prisoners-job--WOMAN-politician-Kuwait.html
Men should be allowed sex slaves and female prisoners could do the job - and all this from a WOMAN politician from Kuwait
She suggested shopping for prisoners of war so as to protect Kuwaiti men from being tempted to commit adultery or being seduced by other women's beauty.
'For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives,' she said.
'So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait. Better than to have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations.'
Her unbelievable argument for her plan was that ‘captives’ might 'just die of hunger over there'.
She insisted, 'I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all'.
In an attempt to consider the woman's feelings in the arrangement, Mutari conceded that the enslaved women, however, should be at least 15.
If sex is absent, why are there 1 billion Chinese? Are these virgin births all?
The Chinese are very private and do not copulate in public like dogs or Westerners.
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K
What is the relation between passionate sex and the birth rate? According to reliable staistics, 30% of Chinese women never experience climax. Most Chinese marriages are practical, that is, almost sexless.
In the novel, the blonde-blue eyed sexbomb of an American Marshall is paired with Chen Cao. The novel takes place in karaoke bars and tpurist hotels; she practically throws herself on him, yet he never even touches her, because the relation would be hopeless in the long term. Chen Cao saves the best presents he receives from the snakeheads for her beloved mother and makes an ancestor tomb sweeping detour while engaged in a investigation with a deadline.
The novel is not credible, not very good.
Just to let you know that, apart from enjoying the substance of the post, I liked the allusion to the Japanese "ukiyo." We really are living in a floating world, aren't we?
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Thanks for the comment. Comrade Chief Inspector Chen Cao and Party Secretary Li certainly live in the floating world (which is also a Chinese figure - in Classical China many prostibules were elegant floating boats on the river). I wonder what these corrupt Shanghay cops will do after the Yellow River dries up as it is doing.
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