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Tales of mystery occur everywhere.
Now a respected mystery novelist, Xiaolong Qiu initially began his writing career as an award-winning poet in his native China.

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Qiu Xiaolong

Born

Shanghai, China

Website

http://www.qiuxiaolong.com/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Poetry

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Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙) was born in Shanghai, China. He is the author of the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, Death of a Red Heroine (2000), A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), When Red Is Black (2004), A Case of Two Cities (2006), Red Mandarin Dress (2007), and The Mao Case (2009). He is also the author of two books of poetry translations, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking T'ang (2007), and his own poetry collection, Lines Around China (2003). Qiu's books have sold over a million copies and have been published in twenty languages. He currently lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter.

Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙) was born in Shanghai, China. He is the author of the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, Death of a Red Heroine (2000), A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), When Red Is Black (2004), A Case of Two Cities (2006), Red Mandarin Dress (2007), and The Mao Case (2009). He is also the author of t

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Qiu Xiaolong

American poet

In this Chinese name, the family name is Qiu.

Qiu Xiaolong (Chinese: 裘小龙, Chinese pronunciation /tɕʰjoʊː ˌɕjɑʊˈlʊŋ/, American English pronunciation )^[1] is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic.^[1] Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.^[2]

He has published thirteen crime-thriller/mystery novels as part of the Inspector Chen Cao series. These include Death of a Red Heroine, which won the Anthony Award for best first novel in 2001,^[1] and A Loyal Character Dancer. All books follow Shanghai Chief Inspector Chen Cao, a poetry-quoting cop who writes poems himself, and his sidekick Detective Yu.^[1] Alongside the plot, the major concern in the books is modern China itself. Each book features quotes from ancient and modern poets, Confucius, insights into Chinese cuisine, architecture, history, politics, herbology and p

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A Loyal Character Dancer

by Qiu Xiaolong

Published by Soho Press

360 pages, 2002

"I'm trying to do something quite realistic. I'm not trying to portray China as black as possible. I want my books to be something like a window through which people can look at China."

Tales of mystery occur everywhere. But mystery stories do not. Born and nurtured in Europe -- with a little American midwifery from Edgar Allan Poe (who's generally credited with having invented the modern detective tale) -- the genre has not traveled well beyond the West.

True, translations of popular mystery novels are available worldwide, but it's rare for a non-Western author to espouse the writing of crime fiction. (Japan is a notable exception, having produced such novelists as Akimhsu Takagi, Shotano Ikenami and Seicho Matsumoto.) More often, mysteries set in far-flung lands turn out to be written by Westerners.