Word: chen
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...Staff writer Lucy D. Chen can be reached at lucychen@fas.harvard.edu...
...that’s not what a lot of people are predicting,” Lin said. “Right now, we’re going through a tough stretch and we just have to get through it.” —Staff writer Lucy D. Chen can be reached at lucychen@fas.harvard.edu...
...Perhaps reflecting his creator's donnish temperament, Inspector Chen is somewhat ambivalent about the door-knocking and petty politicking that go along with police work. In the course of his investigations, Qiu's hero frequently cites literary theory or quotes Tang dynasty poetry. Chen is less a cop moonlighting as a poet than a poet daylighting...
...Mandarin Dress, Chen has retreated further than ever from day-to-day policing, and, perhaps inevitably, the novel's crime plot often gets enjoyably lost in a thicket of Chinese history, literature and food. Yet Qiu also adeptly follows the genre's conventions and, when Inspector Chen's investigation gains momentum, the mystery of the women in the red dresses predictably returns to a buried crime from the Cultural Revolution: the sins of the nation's past revisited upon the present. Already, Qiu says, he's at work on the next novel in the series, which will...
...what's the secret of the game's popularity among aspiring professionals? It is not a substitute singles night - many of the players are married. Neither does it involve gambling, which is banned in China. Instead, as 25-year-old bond trader Chen Jinghua confides, players are addicted to the game's heady mix of technology, power and wealth. "I can practice manipulating people and learning how to persuade or hoodwink my opponents into doing what I want, skills that I have to use everyday," she says. Since joining the club, Jinghua has met many like-minded ambitious professionals...