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China Trade

The Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Series, Book 1

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China Trade

By: S. J. Rozan
Narrated by: 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 16 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.

©2007 S. J. Rozan (P)2007 AudioGO Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Crime China China Trade
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About stolen Chinese porcelain miniatures.
So many conflicting scenarios that could have happened, but didn’t.
It was much simpler and closer to home than anticipated

Detective story

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It's off putting that Rozan (not Chinese) has her Chinese protagonist talking about cultural representation and appropriation. I've got no issue that an author writes from a perspective that isn't their own, my issue is with using the perspective to talk about what it feels like to have your culture misrepresented or appropriated.

off putting

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Lydia Chin a Chinese Americanism Private Investigator much to her mother and brothers disgust. Her business partner is a white guy which also upsets her mother. Together they solve the robber with several twists along the way.

1st Book in Series

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