Looking East

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Expanding the horizons of golden age detective fiction. Many thanks to my guest, Christopher Huang. You can find out more about his work at ricordius.com. His first mystery novel is A Gentleman's Murder. Read his article "How Do You Decolonise The Golden Age Mystery? Read More Historical Fiction!" at crimereads.com. Find out more about this episode at shedunnitshow.com/lookingeast. To support the podcast, be part of a superb bookish community, and get two bonus episodes a month, become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club now at shedunnitbookclub.com/join. Books mentioned: — The Cadfael series by Ellis Peters — X Esquire by Leslie Charteris — The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie — Meet the Tiger by Leslie Charteris — Miss Moorthy Investigates by Ovidia Yu — Ronald Knox's "Decalogue" — "The Rules" episode of Shedunnit — The Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee — The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey — The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookseller that ships internationally at no extra charge. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/lookingeasttranscript Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to She Done It, I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:09.0	One of the reasons that we still read Golden Age Detective fiction today is because of
0:13.8	the insights and details it provides into the time in which it was written.
0:18.8	That period between the two world wars comes alive to us because of the who done it that
0:23.6	were published then and that were still enjoying today.
0:28.4	But it was at risk of sounding extremely glib, a very different time, especially when
0:34.0	it comes to Britain, where many of these mysteries were written and set, and its geopolitical
0:39.8	role in the world.
0:42.0	For instance, the British monarch for most of that into war period was George V, and
0:47.2	his full title was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India.
0:54.2	That was a lot of the rest of the world which still came under British colonial rule,
0:59.2	and I think any understanding of Britishness at that time needs to take that into account.
1:06.1	Exploring how this history shows up in murder mysteries, and how that was experienced
1:10.2	by readers around the world, is something I like to do on this show.
1:15.0	In a recent episode we looked at how Golden Age crime writing had shaped the genre in India,
1:20.7	and today we're turning our attention to Singapore.
1:23.8	There's lots to dig into here, from the way that Singaporean and Chinese characters
1:28.2	were incorporated by Golden Age writers, to how issues of colonisation in that part of
1:33.1	the world affect the reading of these books today.
1:36.7	My guest for this episode is Christopher Hoang, a mystery writer who grew up in Singapore
1:41.4	loving Golden Age detective fiction, and he got started with the genre in the way that
1:46.6	many of us fans do.
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