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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...
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Philips, Judson
American author and journalist, born in Northfield, Massachusetts. Judson P. (Pentecost) Philips has primarily become known as a crime writer under his own name as well as the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost. While his writing career from 1939 on is well charted, there is little information about his private life: in the few interviews he gave, he was happy to talk about his writing, but not about his...