James Church's Inspector O novels have been hailed as "crackling good" (The Washington Post) and "tremendously clever" (Tampa Tribune), while Church himself has been embraced by critics as "the equal of le Carré" (Publishers Weekly, starred). Now Church—a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way that no one else can—comes roaring back with a new novel introducing Inspector O's nephew, Major Bing, the long-suffering chief of the Chinese Ministry of State Security operations on the border with North Korea. The last place Bing expected to find the stunningly beautiful Madame Fang—a woman Headquarters wants closely watched—was on his front doorstep. Then, as suddenly as she shows up, Madame Fang mysteriously disappears across the river into North Korea, leaving in her wake both consternation and a highly sensitive assignment for Bing to bring back from the North a long missing Chinese security official. Concerned for his nephew's safety, O reluctantly helps him navigate an increasingly complex and deadly maze, one that leads down the twisted byways of O's homeland. In the tradition of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy, and the Inspector Arkady Renko novels, A Drop of Chinese Blood presents an unfamiliar world, a perplexing universe where the rules are an enigma to the reader and even, sometimes, to Inspector O. Once again, James Church has crafted a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows by heart.

When clues link a beautiful woman's disappearance to a sensitive mission to deliver an agent across the North Korean border, Bing, a director of state security in a volatile region of China, receives reluctant help from his uncle, Inspector O, to navigate an increasingly complex investigation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: mixed race in Asia -- Part I China and Vietnam -- 1 'A class by themselves': battles over Eurasian schooling in late-nineteenth-century Shanghai -- 2 Mixing blood and race: representing Hunxue in contemporary China -- 3 Métis of Vietnam: an historical perspective on mixed-race children from the French colonial period -- Part II South Korea and Japan -- 4 Developing bilingualism in a largely monolingual society: Southeast Asian marriage migrants and multicultural families in South Korea -- 5 Haafu identity in Japan: half, mixed or double? -- 6 Claiming Japaneseness: recognition, privilege and status in Japanese-Filipino 'mixed' ethnic identity constructions -- Part III Malaysia and Singapore -- 7 Being 'mixed' in Malaysia: negotiating ethnic identity in a racialized context -- 8 Chinese, Indians and the grey space in between: strategies of identity work among Chindians in a plural society -- 9 'Our Chinese': the mixedness of Peranakan Chinese identities in Kelantan, Malaysia -- 10 Eurasian as multiracial: mixed race, gendered categories and identity in Singapore -- Part IV India and Indonesia -- 11 Is the Anglo-Indian'identity crisis' a myth? -- 12 Performing Britishness in a railway colony: production of Anglo-Indiansas a railway caste -- 13 Sometimes white, sometimes Asian: boundary-making among transnational mixed descent youth at an international school in Indonesia -- 14 Class, race and being Indo (Eurasian) in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia -- Afterword -- Index

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