shanghai (china)

When the wife of an important witness in an American criminal case disappears, it is up to Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau and Catherine Rohn of the United States Marshals Service to work together to find her.

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police joins forces with his counterpart at the U.S. Marshall's Service, Inspector Catherine Rhon, to investigate a high-stakes corruption case.

A young ?national model worker,? renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his own superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career?perhaps even his life?if he wants to see justice done.

When Jake is offered a chance to race in China for a world class BMX team he is not sure that he wants to go--but when one of his friends asks him to smuggle a mysterious drug called Dragonbone that can prolong life to her dying mother in China he feels he has to take the trip, whatever the danger.

In 1903, Rachel, a Jew who left Russia with her family on the Trans-Siberian Railway to the coast to board a ship for Shanghai, China, and her friend Sergei, who left home for a factory job in St. Petersburg and joined rebelling workers, write letters to one another, describing the challenges they face and hope for their futures.

Jim is an eleven-year-old British boy living in Shanghai in 1941. The Japanese take British citizens prisoner, and Jim is separated from his parents and forced to spend the next three years in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp.

Dreaming of love and success in rapidly changing Shanghai, four individuals--a starry-eyed waitress, a wealthy developer's son, a pop artist, and a poetry-loving activist--confront unexpected realities in regional challenges.

Documents the efforts of French Jesuit, Father Robert Jacquinot de Besange, who convinced Japanese and Chinese military leaders to establish a safe zone in the midst of the war and ultimately help to save the lives of more than half a million Chinese civilians over the course of the war.