Chinese authors have written many detective stories and mysteries that are set in contemporary China, but few of these are available to readers who only know languages such as English and French. More numerous are detective stories that explore contemporary Chinese society (and, by reflection, American and European societies) that have been written in English. These mysteries are lively, genuine "page-turners," and they are an important source of information to foreign readers about China and above all its dramatic economic and social development since the 1990s. The authors are more interested in China's hyperdevelopment in recent years than in Chinese crime; China's crime rate is low, and mysteries after all bring the reader into a new "world" of experience, but are rarely "realistic" in any theoretical sense. China is the real interest.
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