Attorney David Stark is his discovery that among the hapless refugees lies the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China’s political elite. No one is surprised to find the fetid hold crammed with hundreds of undocumented Chinese immigrants the latest cargo in the Chinese mafia’s burgeoning smuggling trade. Almost simultaneously, American officials find a ship adrift in the storm churned waters off Southern California. ambassador’s son is found dead his body entombed in a frozen lake. In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s reign, the U.S. Here the veil is ripped away from modern China its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty and the inextricable link between China’s fortunes and America’s is underscored. In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.
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