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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...
...preoccupation with China's tumultuous recent past was foreordained. One of his formative experiences as an author was, after all, ghostwriting a self-criticism for his father, a businessman persecuted during the Red Guards' reign of terror. Qiu says he never set out to write Chinese crime novels. A poet and translator himself - his credits include two books of translated poetry, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking Tang (2007), as well as a volume of his own verse, Lines Around China (2003) - Qiu permanently quit China in 1988 to study at Washington University in St. Louis, a city...
...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...
...This history of the [poet] laureate is from Roman times,” says Redmond. “But it was always an upper class thing...
While Payack may not fit the mold of the classical poet laureate, he says that he has always been enamored with the ancient Greeks and Romans...