tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34713836.post2419187934339075880..comments2023-05-30T03:47:40.447-05:00Comments on ReadingBlog: Change (and not in coins)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34713836.post-41536472317399500102012-06-16T09:35:25.778-05:002012-06-16T09:35:25.778-05:00Shanghai's latest cachet: a fictional cop
&qu...<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2012/06/16/shanghais_latest_cachet_a_fictional_cop/" rel="nofollow">Shanghai's latest cachet: a fictional cop</a><br /><br />"For a city to fully secure its place in the global culture these days, it helps to have a fictional detective taking foreign readers where the guidebooks don't go, and that's where Qiu Xiaolong comes in with his brainchild, Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai police… <br /><br />"His Inspector Chen series began in 2000 with "Death of a Red Heroine," in which the investigation into the murder of a young woman, a model worker, leads to high places in the Communist Party.<br /><br />"Although his books are sold in China, the classic "whodunnit" remains an alien genre here, outgunned by zombie tales, he says…"Ken Weddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09432599516874850614noreply@blogger.com