One Man’s Revolution
The Wall Street Journal talks with police-detective novelist Qiu Xiaolong about his new book, Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai: Mr. Qiu grew up in a Shanghai neighborhood poor in amenities but rich in humanity. “You...
Qiu Xiaolong
Video: Dreaming of Inspector Chen
Anna Sophie Loewenberg interviews novelist Qiu Xiaolong on the roof of the Beijing Bookworm Cafe about his Detective Chen mystery series and his new book, Red Mandarin Dress. From SexyBeijing.tv: In this episode Sufei meets Qiu...
For Creator of Inspector Chen, China Is a Tough Case to Crack – Howard W. French
From The New York Times: WHEN Qiu Xiaolong reflects on his life, the path has an air almost of inevitability. The arc includes an inquisitive childhood in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution; studying poetry in Beijing, where he translated the complete works of T. S. Eliot; traveling in the early days of d√©tente to the […]
In Shanghai, a prism of fiction reveals truth – Howard W. French
From The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog: Writers have an honored history of staying ahead of convention. Whether through muckraking, parody, irony or dissidence, fiction maintains its relevance, and when it’s good, its prescience, too. This point was brought home to me recently, when in the midst of a major, […]
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