#crime fiction

#Deng Erya

#Lei Yutian

#Xiang Xuehai

#beauty pageant

#Raymond Chow Man-wai

#Shanghai

#Nantang

#the United States

#Chin Woo

#Cantonese Rhyming

#‘half-cent’ book series

#Xu Kairu

#Xin Fan

#Lu Shu

#Luo Tongbang

#Huang Huajie

#Sun Mingjing

#KMT

#Cantonese writing

#Piaoboshaonian

#Southern Society (nan she)

#Zheng Yimei

#Masao Inoue

#the Association of Co-Prosperity of Guangdong

#Queen’s Theatre

#Zhong Qiwen

#Qiu Sheng

#Feng Hongdao

#military