Qiu xiaolong biography of albert

  

 

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 Seic