“Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into the night . Buy Death of a Red Heroine: Inspector Chen 1 (As heard on Radio 4) by Xiaolong, Qiu from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Poet and translator turned detective Chen Cao now heads the Special Case Squad, an assignment that brings political scrutiny with every move. Since her death is introduced in the beginning of the story, Guan can only be observed through the accounts of others. Death of a Red Heroine is a murder mystery set in Shanghai in 1990. Death of a Red Heroine. Death of a Red Heroine. Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson. Shanghai, May 1990. The novel revolves around the death of a young woman, whose body is found wrapped in plastic in a canal in an obscure part of Shanghai by a couple of friends. Judging from the fact that it won the 2001 Edgar for 'Best First Mystery', many readers had the same reaction. . Qiu Xiaolong's Death of a Red Heroine is a political police procedural that takes place in 1990s Shanghai. There is a victim, a beautiful National Model Worker famous throughout China. “Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into the night . . . A refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.” . Hongying, literally meaning red heroine, is the inspiration for the book's title. A refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.” Death of a Red Heroine, a debut offering by Qiu Xiaolong, is such a book. So begins the first of Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen novels. “Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into the night . Wu Xiaoming. . Qiu Xialong is originally from China but now teaches Chinese literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Death of a Red Heroine | Xiaolong Qiu | download | Z-Library. As mentioned above, this award winning novel was first published in 2000 and it was an instant hit. . A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. A refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.” Wu Xiaoming is the murderer of Guan Hongying. 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