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Becoming Inspector Chen – Let’s Go Back to the Start of his Career

Posted: April 13th, 2021 | No Comments »

I’m sure many China Rhyming readers enjoy Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen series of detective novels set in 1990s and slightly later Shanghai. His new book, Becoming Inspector Chen, is a prequal heading back to the era of reform under Deng Xiaoping, when the Shanghai Police Bureau recruited educated young men like Chen….



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