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...Decades later, the stirred memory of that photo suggested the plot of Qiu's Red Mandarin Dress, the fifth and latest of his popular, Shanghai-set Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many...
...course of duty, Inspector Chen has tackled political corruption (Death of a Red Heroine, 2000) and human trafficking (A Loyal Character Dancer, 2002). Qiu's 2006 mystery, A Case of Two Cities, was a virtual blueprint for the pension scandal that roiled Shanghai's highest political aeries last year and led to the resignation of the city's Communist Party chief. "A cop walks around and knocks on people's doors, asks questions," Qiu says. "It's become a convenient way to write about things I want to explore...
...There are lots of ways that sex affects you,” Wasserman said in an interview afterward. “It’s not only about the act of sex.” She said that H Bomb had solicited contributions both from campus sex blogger Lena Chen ’09 and the abstinence group True Love Revolution, but that both declined. (Chen, also a member of the Crimson magazine staff, said she simply didn’t have time; TLR could not be reached...
...don’t think I’ve saved any lives in my time here,” she says. Such humility, according to friend and fellow Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) member Matthew F. Basilico ’08, is characteristic of Connie E. Chen ’08—and perhaps misleading. A snapshot of Chen’s resume reveals a person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing for both medical schools and consulting firms (just landing a job at McKinsey & Co.) who has also spent...
Student entrepreneur Chen B. Fang ’10 currently funds laddertoheaven.com, a site where users can share good deeds, with the money he earns from three jobs. This spring, a new undergraduate business competition may provide him and other innovators on campus with some much-needed cash. Yesterday marked the official launch of “I^3,” the Imagine Invent Impact Harvard College Innovation Challenge. The competition will award $80,000 in cash grants and provide up to $40,000 in services for students to pursue innovative ventures. Michael Segal...