page_title: Zhong Fong (novel series)
section_title: Writing process and series publication
hierarchical_section_title: Zhong Fong (novel series) / Publication history / Writing process and series publication
caption_attribution_description: English: Shanghai xian cheng xiang zu jie quan tu. Scale ca. 1:5400. Revision of map originally drawn by Xu Yucang in 1875. Shows foreign concessions in Shanghai. Chinese area in yellow, French in red, British in blue, American in orange. 中文: 上海县城厢租界全图 比例尺1:5400
context_page_description: The Zhong Fong mystery series is a quintet of Canadian novels by theatre director and acting coach David Rotenberg, set primarily in contemporary Shanghai, China, and named after the series protagonist, Detective Inspector Zhong Fong. In addition to The Shanghai Murders and its four sequels, the character also makes a cameo appearance in Rotenberg's epic historical novel, Shanghai. The series and Shanghai have both received critical acclaim and sold well worldwide.
context_section_description: As the Zhong Fong novels are police procedurals, Rotenberg purposefully had his writing space cluttered with images and books when he wrote it: "two large modern desks at right angles to each other — the whole thing dominated by a large computer monitor. It felt that the job was to produce order from the chaos — just as police officers must."
  Zhong Fong first appeared in The Shanghai Murders, published in 1998 by the recently founded McArthur & Company. The next novels in the series were also published by McArthur & Co., in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
caption: Map of Shanghai, 1884
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