Sleuths For Hire
Yang didn’t receive any accolades from the Chinese police for busting the body snatcher, but an American company did pay him a cool $500 a day for his work. That’s because Yang is not a cop anymore. He’s a private investigator, part of a fast-growing, freewheeling industry that is challenging the boundaries of China’s old police state. Beijing, reluctant to give up its role as Big Brother, has officially banned private-detective agencies....