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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon (AKA I Am Liu Yuejin) by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.
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The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, Zhenyun Liu, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon
- Subtitle
- A Novel of Contemporary China
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Arcade
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1628725206
- ISBN13
- 9781628725209
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature, Business, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Politics, USA, Asia, China, Literary Criticism, Travelling, Cities, Communism, Nobel prize, Sagas, Family Sagas, Bestsellers, Wealth, Chinese Literature, Thieves, Robbers, Real Estate, Chinese, Beijing, Red Army, Elites
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon (AKA I Am Liu Yuejin) by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China.