Qiu Xiaolong (Chinese: 裘小龙, ; born Shanghai, China, 1953) is an English- language poet, literary translator, crime novelist, critic, and academic, who has lived for many years in St. Louis, Missouri. He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he remained in America to avoid persecution by the Communist Party of China.
He has published nine crime -thriller/mystery novels set in Shanghai in the 1990s at the point when the People 's Republic of China is making momentous changes. These include Death of a Red Heroine, which won the AnthonyAward for best first novel in 2001, and A Loyal Character Dancer. All books feature Chief Inspector Chen Cao, a poetry -quoting cop with integrity, and his sidekick Detective Yu. But the main concern in the books is modern China itself. Each book features quotes from ancient and modern poets, Confucius, insights into Chinese cuisine, architecture, history, politics, herbology and philosophy as well as criminal procedure.
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