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Xiaoqing Cheng

Sherlock in Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing

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Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s--the Paris of the Orient--was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976), The Grand Master of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle's highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wong, Timothy C. (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8248-3099-1
  • EAN: 9780824830991
  • Produktnummer: 2473758
  • Verlag: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 214 S.
  • Masse: H21.2 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.7 cm 299 g
  • Gewicht: 299

Über den Autor


Timothy C. Wong is professor of Chinese at Arizona State University, where he teaches Chinese fiction and directs the graduate program in Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Department of Languages and Literatures.

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