But, like a latter-day Miss Marple, crime and a punishing schedule follow the inspector wherever he goes.A chance encounter with a local woman at a restaurant makes Inspector Chen realise that all is not as it seems in Wuxi.
In addition to the Nanjing handiworks, many of the arts and crafts products produced in other Jiangsu cities are world-renowned, including embroidery from Suzhou, clay teapots from Yixing, laquerwork from Yangzhou, and clay figurines from Wuxi.
Wuxi, near Shanghai, has become a major industrial centre with good inland waterway connections to all parts of the province.
Chinese banks quietly asked a court in Wuxi on Monday to declare the operating subsidiary, Wuxi Suntech, insolvent and begin reorganizing it.
In Wuxi, the city closest to Mr Wu's home in Fenshui village, residents queued to buy bottled water.
MLB is trying, belatedly, to rectify this, funding a development centre at a school in Wuxi that has access to a field created by expatriates.
That suggests that the local government of Wuxi, where Suntech is based, will not allow it to go under.
On the same day, a court in the eastern city of Wuxi ruled in the case of a 77-year-old mother who had sued her daughter for not visiting her and for failing to help her financially.
In recent months he helped arrange acquisitions for WuXi PharmaTech and Mindray, both medical companies.
He tried to launch an environmental NGO but officials turned down his request to register it (Wuxi already had one, they said, and that was enough).
The company's solar-panel operations in Wuxi, China, were declared bankrupt on March 20th.
