· DEATH OF A RED HEROINE is a very intricate book, exploring many aspects of the society in which the action takes place. Firstly the character of Inspector Chen Cao, a maverick (as much as you can be under totalitarian control), he's a poet, a loner, a /5. Death of a Red Heroine is a book hovering uneasily between the spheres of fiction and fact, creativity and didacticism. For much of the novel, author Qiu Xiaolong seems more intent on driving home the actions and consequences of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath than on the slowly unfolding plot/5(). · Death of a Red Heroine is an unusual and rather extraordinary book set in Shanghai, China, in the s. A police officer and his friend are ostensibly patrolling the Suzhou River. In reality, they are meeting each other for the first time in 20 years and fishing off the boat. However, their reunion is marred by the discovery of a dead body/5.
Much to my disappointment, however, Qiu Xiaolong's presentation of China in Death of a Red Heroine is one part setting and one part history lesson, with those two parts not melded very well. Inspector Chen will go to a temple-turned-market, following which you will get a paragraph about the history of the temple-turned-market. Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. Death of a Red Heroine, a debut offering by Qiu Xiaolong, is such a book. Judging from the fact that it won the Edgar for 'Best First Mystery', many readers had the same reaction. Qiu Xialong is originally from China but now teaches Chinese literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
DEATH OF A RED HEROINE is a very intricate book, exploring many aspects of the society in which the action takes place. Firstly the character of Inspector Chen Cao, a maverick (as much as you can be under totalitarian control), he's a poet, a loner, a romantic soul forced into the life of a policeman. Death of a Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong - Google Books. Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young “national model worker,” renowned for her. Death of a Red Heroine is a book hovering uneasily between the spheres of fiction and fact, creativity and didacticism. For much of the novel, author Qiu Xiaolong seems more intent on driving home the actions and consequences of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath than on the slowly unfolding plot.
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