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Tag: crime

  • On “Death of a Red Heroine” by Qiu Xiaolong

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    I mistook this novel for a murder mystery. It is that, nominally: Chief Inspector Chen Cao and Detective Yu of the Shanghai Police Bureau spend their time investigating the murder of Guan Hongying, a national model worker found dead in an obscure county canal. Chen and Yu dig for clues, interview witnesses, mull over theories about what…

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    Book cover for Qiu Xiaolong's Death of a Red Heroine novel

  • On human rights and drug-related killings

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    I caught a really thought-provoking interview on human rights featuring the philosopher John Tasioulas recently. Being an (old) episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, which caters to a general audience, the interview focused on a basic1 question: What are human rights? Basic, but not simple, since “human rights” has become both a very charged term and,…

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    Kate