El inspector jefe Chen Cao se encuentra en una situación delicada: el Partido le encomienda investigar la muerte de Zhou Keng, el hijo de un destacado miembro del Partido que dirigía el Comité para el...

En la brigada de casos especiales de Shanghai están todos estupefactos: con la excusa de ascenderlo a un cargo burocrático, han alejado al inspector jefe Chen de los expedientes más delicados. Tras comprobar...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.When Chief Inspector Chen Cao is offered a week's break at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, he accepts immediately. Increasingly worn out by the politics of his job, the...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by rich...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai.An early morning jogger found her....

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through...

Chief Inspector Chen Cao never had a choice about his career. A poet by training, he was assigned to the Shanghai Police Department after college. To his own surprise, he became an excellent detective,...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.'The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did.' For years, Chen Cao managed to balance...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical...

Chief Inspector Chen wanted to be a poet, but the authorities gave him a job in the Shanghai Police Department. He is an excellent detective, but he can never escape the struggle between what the Party...

"Lorsque deux vieux copains se retrouvent pour pêcher, ils ne s'attendent pas à tirer de l'eau le cadavre d'une jeune femme. Pas plus en Chine qu'ailleurs. Et lorsque le camarade inspecteur principal...

"Stupeur à la brigade des affaires spéciales de la police de Shanghai. Sous couvert d’une promotion ronflante, l’inspecteur Chen est démis de ses fonctions. Après tant d’enquêtes menées contre les intérêts...

En un temps d’âpres luttes pour le pouvoir, dans la Chine du IXe un messager impérial vient demander au célèbre juge Ti d’enquêter sur un meurtre dont est soupçonnée la poétesse- courtisane Xuanji. Alors...