Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Qiu Xiaolong

Book Review: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong   Mystery: Red Mandarin Dress, Inspector Chen Book 5, Qiu Xiaolong   Inspector Chen is often assigned politically sensitive cases. In communist China, those cases can make or break careers, depending less on the arrest of the criminal and more on the inspector’s ability […]

Book Review: Enigma of China, Qiu Xiaolong

Book Review: Enigma of China, Inspector Chen Book 8, Qiu Xiaolong Mystery: Enigma of China, Inspector Chen Book 8, Qiu Xiaolong   Zhou Keng is a “princeling,” the son of a high-ranking party official who has himself risen to a high position. Under investigation for corruption, Keng has been taken by party investigators to a local […]