Death of a Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong

I lived in China for many years and became a huge fan of Chinese literature, particularly martial arts stories. The one thing I did miss though was crime fiction; although there was increasingly foreign crime fiction translated into Chinese, there was very little crime fiction by Chinese authors. So when I saw this book I was delighted. It has been written directly into English, which is probably why it has become popular here; the author moved to the US from China in 1989 and now teaches Chinese literature at Washington University. The story A woman’s naked body is found in a canal just outside Shanghai and Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu of the ...  Read the complete review