Hence an international scandal too huge for the Beijing authorities to cover up. In the early nineties, Chen was made the Chief Inspector of the Shanghai Police Bureau. The battle Huxley waged against the loss of individuality and autonomy under the authoritarian government remains an uphill one in China today. All books feature Chief Inspector Chen Cao. He was admitted into the Party, given real cases, and rose rapidly in bureau. The Inspector Chen Collection 1-3: Death of a Red Heroine, A Loyal Character Dancer, When Red is Black (As heard on Radio 4), A Case of Two Cities: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Cao), Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Cao), Shanghai Redemption: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Cao), Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. I have not yet read Brave New World Revisited nor After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our. When Bo Xilai began riding high in China’s political landscape, it did not come into my mind to write a novel linked to him, in spite of us being schoolmates at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the early ’80s. His rise in the Party system brings about change in his experience as a poet. © 2019 Los Angeles Review of Books. But a lot he predicted are realities now, like political propaganda, psychological manipulation, classical conditioning, all these a totalitarian regime uses to keep the people subservient and under control. I like her poems, having translated one for a classical Chinese poetry collection. Inspector Harry Callahan – Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink (played by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry film series) Chief Inspector Chen Cao – Qiu Xiaolong; Detective 2nd Grade Stephen Louis ("Steve") Carella – Ed McBain; Detective Sergeant Ray Carling – Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes (played by Dean Andrews) This is because the professor offering the class, historian Michael Freeman, included a whodunit by the Dutch Sinologist Robert van Gulick on his syllabus. Indeed writing Shanghai Redemption repeatedly drew me back into The Waste Land, as the redemption theme runs through both the poem and the novel. Here we provide an introduction to the volume penned Qiu, who unquestionably knows Chen and his poetry better than any other person on earth does—or ever could—due to the crucial role he has played in chronicling the versifying sleuth’s cases and writings. He jots down fragments in a small notebook, like the Tang dynasty poet Li He who rode around on a donkey, dashing off the lines whenever obtainable, and dropping them into a cloth bag for composition later. All books feature Chief Inspector Chen Cao. For now, avoid forcing the issue with mere "lists" of works possessing an arbitrary shared characteristic, such as relating to a particular place. Now it’s perceptive of you to note “the ties between the Chines crime solver and the Western poet as a more central element” of Shanghai Redemption than of the earlier books in the series. As fans of the “Inspector Chen” novels know, the Shanghai detective not only excels at solving crimes and navigating the complexities of politically tricky situations but also writes verse. Inspector Chen has become one of my favorite characters in a city where I have spent a great deal of time. With Bian’s encouragement, Chen had them published in Poetry and other magazines. Some readers may take it for granted that you’ll pen another Inspector Chen novel, but you’ve also done some quite different books lately. At the beginning of Shanghai Redemption, however, his illusion shattered, his position deprived, Chen comes to the realization that “the system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party.” So his is not just a personal crisis, nor was Eliot’s. Or did you only think of working him into a novel later? Notwithstanding the strenuous caseload, he finds the police work widening the range of the poetic subject matter for him; case inspire him to compose lines in response to the unimaginable cruelties, irrationalities, corruptions, insanities as revealed in his investigations. ‘Inspector Chen’ novelist says Chinese society crumbling under materialism. I allude to him frequently not just because I’ve learned a lot of the modernist techniques while translating his poems in the ‘80s, but also because his impersonal theory enabled me to write in a way different from the romantic tradition, i.e., the poet should not, and cannot, identify himself with the persona or speaker of the poem. During the period, changes also occur in his personal life. I had to subtract instead. As for the other book projects, Years of Red Dust II was completed, translated, published, and well-received in French and Italian.

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