![]() ![]() Initially there are no obvious leads, and when Chen learns that another department is willing to take the murder off his workload, he strongly considers it. His partner is Yu Guanming, who is his subordinate, but who has no respect for Chen initially. He has however kept up with his poetry, and has published to some success. He was an English major in college and intended to be a diplomat, but when it’s discovered that his uncle was a counter-revolutionary, the Party assigned him a career in law enforcement. He owes his rise in the department to the politics of the Communist Party. Chen is not a typical police officer he is an enthusiastic poet and not particularly interested in police work. The investigation is assigned to Chief Inspector Chen, a member of the Shanghai Special Case Squad. The story begins with the discovery of a body in the remote Baili Canal, twenty miles west of Shanghai. ![]() Set in Shanghai in the early 1990s, Xiaolong explores the politics and rapidly-shifting culture of modern-day China through the lens of a murder investigation. Death of a Red Heroine is a mystery novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published in 2000. ![]()
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