RAS BOOK CLUB
Monday 21st January 2013 at 7:00 pm
glo London (3/F VIP Room or Lounge)
1 Wulumuqi Lu near Dongping Lu (across from American Consulate)
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The RAS Book Club will meet to discuss:
Hanging Devils
Murder Afoot In the Icy North
Hong Jun Investigates
by He Jiahong.
On this occasion, members of the RAS Book Club will have the opportunity to discuss the book among themselves without the participation of the author, leaving the group free to pursue their own line of discussion and dialogue.
Copies of the book will be available at RAS events prior to this meeting, and can also be obtained by contacting the RAS Book Club at bookclub@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Entrance: RMB 70 (RAS Members) and RMB 100 (non-members) including a drink (tea, coffee, soft drink, or glass of wine). Those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption prior to this RAS Book Club event. Membership applications and membership renewals will be available at this event.
RSVP: bookclub@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
N.B. RESERVATIONS ESSENTIAL AS SPACE IS LIMITED AT THIS EVENT.
ABOUT
Hanging Devils
Murder Afoot In The Icy North
Hong Jun Investigates
He Jiahong
Published by Penguin
Though all four of He Jiahong’s Hong Jun crime novels have appeared in French, Hanging Devils is the only one so far to be translated into English.
Inspired by real events, Hanging Devils is a thriller about the struggle that lawyer Hong Jun underwent in the first case he took after returning from the United States and opening a law office in Beijing in the early 1990s.
The case concerns Li Hongmei, a beautiful woman, who was raped and killed on a State-owned farm in northeast China. The police caught a suspect, who has a rich brother, and the latter was prepared to pay whatever it took to save his sibling. He engaged Hong as the defense lawyer. To uncover the truth, Hong challenged those who put personal ambition above the rule of law and those who try desperately to hide the sins of the past.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professor He Jiahong is one of China’s leading experts on criminal evidence, evidential investigation and criminal procedure. He obtained his doctorate in judicial science from Northwestern University in Illinois, and is currently a professor at the school of law of the People’s University in Beijing, one of China’s most prestigious academic institutions. He is also a presenter of legal programs on Chinese national television. As well as publishing extensively on legal matters, he has written several bestselling crime novels, including a series of four books featuring the character Hong Jun.