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Sample of authors
Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese author, poet, translator and scholar. He was born in Shanghai and grew up in post-revolution China. During the Cultural Revolution, when students were forced into the countryside to "learn from the peasants", Qiu remained in the city as he was often bedridden due to a respiratory problem. With nothing to do during long, tedious days he began to practice tai chi in the...
Literary figures
John Jericho
Gender: Male
He is a well-built, strong man who is instantly recognisable thanks to his impressive red beard, and he is often likened to a Viking. But the Korea veteran John Jericho is a successful and well-paid – albeit seen as somewhat controversial – artist in Greenwich Village who because of his sense of justice and his curiosity solves crimes in a suite of novels and (primarily) short stories by Hugh Pen...