'A classic detective fiction with lots of underworld contacts and hushed conversations in noodle bars, but underneath, it's an examination of China old and new, and feels absolutely contemporary' - Mark Coles, BBC's The Ticket.
Paperback: Mei is an independent Chinese woman who runs her own business in Beijing, working as a private investigator.
Paperback: Mei is an independent Chinese woman who runs her own business in Beijing, working as a private investigator.
One day, 'Uncle' Chen, no relation but a close friend of her mother, comes to Mei with a case: he asks her to find a Han-dynasty jade that was taken from a museum during the Cultural Revolution, when Red Guards swarmed the streets, destroying many remnants of the past.
But Mei's investigations reveal a story that has far more to do with her own family than she could ever have expected.
On the author: Diane Wei Liang was born in Beijing. She spent part of her childhood with her parents in a labour camp in a remote region of China. While attending Peking University in the 1980s, she took part in the Student Democracy Movement and was in Tiananmen Square. Diane has a PhD in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and was a professor of management in the US and the UK for over ten years. She lives in London with her husband and their two children.
The Eye of Jade (2008) is her first novel in the PI Mei Wang series.
Rating: 3/5
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