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Portrait of Qiu Xiaolong Photo: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images (2014)

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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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Christian Rønnes

Gender: Male

Little is known about his private life, but in the criminal investigation department in Trondheim everyone knows who he is: an honest, pleasant veteran who eventually retires in books by Fredrik Skagen, but who is still sought out for advice by his younger former colleagues. Christian Rønnes is a stable elderly gentleman, he thinks and acts sometimes rather slowly, but he sticks stubbornly at it ...

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