THE MANDARIN CLUB: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 11516006B05715
English Summary/英文概要： A contemporary Washington mystery with a high tech, China twist . . . A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis.
It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the U.S. recognizes the People’s Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills The Mandarin Club members possess. Now, yesterday’s dreamers are today’s policy-makers and pundits, patriots and spies. Their intimately intertwined past thrusts them together into an international crisis straight from tomorrow’s headlines, as America, China, and Taiwan stumble toward war.
Here are vivid portraits of characters trying to honor fundamental values in busy lives, even as a violent world intrudes. Rachel Paulson, the one-time Rocky Mountain ranch girl, has become a top Washington lobbyist. Alexander Bonner, the sage reporter, now tracks ominous intelligence leaks. Branko Rosza, the cleverest of the originals, heads China analysis at the CIA, manipulating the pieces of their puzzle. Mickey Dooley, their one-time ringleader, now peddles satellite technology to Communists with the cool aplomb of a mortuary salesman. Evanescent Barry Lavin, father and friend, floats in and out of their lives with alarming ease, obscuring his private mysteries. Martin Booth, the earnest minister’s son, works the Congress, haunted by the contradictions of power. Watching them all is their once-adopted Beijing exchange student, Lee Tai Ling, the stubborn Chinese nationalist, who remains torn between ideology and individualism.
Told sequentially from the perspective of each of the Stanford originals, the fast-paced tale takes us behind the scenes of rogue intelligence operations and high tech smuggling, from Washington and Beijing to the wild coastal towns of California.
From its opening, when global events shatter their suburban idyll, to its close, when flawed old friends awkwardly seek to reconcile, the story builds swiftly, blending fact with fiction that rings eerily true. Provocatively detailed through the knowing voice of a prominent Washington expert, this is highly literate fiction. It fuses Big Chill themes with Le Carré rhythms in a post-Cold War story of espionage spiced with intelligence nuggets only an inside player can possess.
The Mandarin Club is a cerebral thriller. Its complex international plot is peopled by characters eminently capable of transformation. They reflect on topics as diverse as the true nature of patriotism to the transcendent meaning of good sex. Through their eyes, we witness a series of intriguing exchanges: reporter and source, donor and politician, spy-master and recruit. Through their ears, we eavesdrop on debates from China’s War Room to the hideaway offices of Congress. Through their hearts, we share in their determined struggle to find purpose, companionship, and renewal in imperfect lives.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部集高科技、中国特色于一体的现代版华盛顿间谍秘史。故事共涉及7个主要人物，发生于20世纪70年代末，斯坦福校园里一家酒吧内。 一批毛泽东后时代的中国学者计划要拯救世界，创造更美好的明天。就在这时候，美利坚合众国认可了中华人民共和国的诞生。于是，代表中国的母语亟需。此刻，曾经的空想主义者摇身一变成了今日的政策制定者、权威、爱国者以及间谍。国仇家恨令他们同仇敌忾。下面就有一些活生生的例子：诸如瑞秋•帕尔森（Rachel Paulson），曾是落基山庄农场主的女儿，现在已是华盛顿首席说客；亚历山大•伯纳（Alexander Bonner），从记者蜕变为信息传递员；等等，他们不论男女，都很好地呈现了爱国主义的真实本质，用他们的肉眼，为我们洞悉了一系列阴谋行动；用他们的耳朵，为我方窃取了重要机密情报；用他们的心，为我们共同奋斗，团结一致。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 杰拉德•费列克斯•沃伯格(Gerald Felix Warburg)，汉普郡学院肄业，后师从斯坦福大学，著有《矛盾与共识》（Conflict and Consensus: The Struggle Between the President and Congress to Shape U.S. Foreign Policy），目前为华盛顿政府公共关系部执行副主席，与家人住弗吉尼亚州。曾作为客座讲师在艾默斯特市汉普郡学院教授历史以及政府课程。 自福特政府以来，他一直在华盛顿参与信息、贸易以及国际安全等事务，且辅佐美国两院完成了1978年《不扩散核武器法案》等对外政策的起草。此外，他还在几个重大运动中起了不可或缺的军师作用，先后为两位民主党总统服务。
Gerald Felix Warburg has worked in Washington on intelligence, trade, and international security matters since the Ford Administration. He has assisted several executive branch agencies, and served on the staff of leadership in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives, where he was a principal draftsman of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978 and other U.S. foreign policy initiatives. In addition, he has provided counsel to several American presidential campaigns and to two democratically elected presidents of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
As a visiting lecturer, he has taught history and government courses at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and for both Stanford and Georgetown university programs. The author of Conflict and Consensus: The Struggle Between the President and Congress to Shape U.S. Foreign Policy (Harper/Collins), he is currently Executive Vice President for a Washington government relations firm.
A native of Marin County, California, Mr. Warburg holds an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, and an advanced degree from Stanford University. He and his family reside in Virginia.
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