Tony Parsons' (“Man and Boy”, “Stories We Could Tell”) new novel is set firmly in Shanghai. “My Favourite Wife” is the story of a lawyer who brings his young family from London to a well-researched Shanghai. Bill Holden lives in Gubei, works at a firm in the financial district of Pudong and entertains clients at Judy’s Too and The Peace Hotel. Perhaps taking his cues from a certain TV show about three hookers and their......

In this latest episode of Sexy Beijing, Sufei meets up with Shanghai-born Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙), author of the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels, Death of a Red Heroine (2000), A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), When Red Is Black (2004), A Case of Two Cities (2006), and Red Mandarin Dress. Qiu currently lives in St Louis, Missouri and writes all his books (and poetry) in English, and only recently have his works been translated......

One of our favorite Chinese sites seems to have run afoul of the net nanny: vip.bokee.com has been on again off again, but perfectly viewable with a proxy. Using the proxy we saw an article about a list published in a Chengdu newspaper of the top-grossing authors in China, at least based on royalties from the sales of their books. At the top of the list was a Guo Jingming, a young author (born in......