{"title":"Diane Wei Liang","description":" Diane Wei Liang nasceu em Pequim. Passou parte da infância com os pais num campo de trabalhos forçados numa região remota da China. Na década de 1980, quando estudava na Universidade de Pequim, participou do Movimento Estudantil pela Democracia e dos acontecimentos da praça da Paz Celestial. Diane é doutora em administração pela Universidade Carnegie Mellon e lecionou por mais de dez anos nos Estados Unidos e na Inglaterra. Atualmente mora em Londres com o marido e os dois filhos. É autora também do livro de memórias Lago sem nome, em que relata os acontecimentos históricos e pessoais vividos por ela durante o movimento pela democracia.","products":[{"product_id":"borboleta-de-papel","title":"Paper butterfly","description":"Born in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, Diane Wei Liang spent part of her childhood in a forced labor camp with her parents in rural China and went into exile in the United States after participating in the Tiananmen Square protests, which culminated in the massacre of thousands of Chinese students. Author of the memoir \"Nameless Lake,\" in which she recounts the historical and personal events she experienced during the democracy movement, the author, now living in London, returns to fiction—but her personal experience and her country's communist past remain indelibly present in this work. Introduced to the public in \"The Jade Eye,\" which marked the author's literary debut, protagonist Mei Wang, China's first female private detective, returns in \"PAPER BUTTERFLY.\" The investigator's journey to solve a new mystery provides readers with a glimpse into contemporary China. At 31, after resigning from the Ministry of Public Security, Mei Wang saw her standard of living plummet. Thanks to her keen intuition, she leveraged her years of experience and unique insight into police and political formalities to build China's most successful private investigation agency. Now, with her own car, business, and even a secretary, Mei is comfortably settled in the heart of the country's largest city, and her reputation is quietly spreading among Beijing's bigwigs who want to solve their problems with the utmost discretion. Under this condition, Mei accepts the case of Peng Datong, president of the record label Guanghua Records, whose most promising star—the beautiful Kaili—has been missing for four days. While the investigation is ongoing, the private detective must corroborate the company's facade that nothing is happening. Besides being one of Mr. Peng's sources of wealth, Kaili is also a troubled and mysterious young woman whose true personality is unknown. The discovery of a bundle of letters in the singer's apartment triggers an investigation that will plunge Mei into the troubled past not only of Kaili, but of the entire nation. Meanwhile, in Gansu province, Lin is finally released after eight years living on the fringes of civilization in a forced labor camp. He will never forget the betrayal that cost him his freedom and his beloved, whom he has never seen again since his imprisonment. As Mei retraces Kaili's path and choices, Lin tries to understand his own past, and the secret he carries could change the course of the detective's investigation.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176407613692,"sku":"9788501083982","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/60d9ea3a635bcabb7b674662f6e064ef.jpg?v=1781841640"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/diane-wei-liang.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}