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Author: Sabrina Yuan Hao
Publisher: Textxet: Studies in Comparativ
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004523159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the global travels of Judge Dee's stories, popularised by the Dutch author Robert van Gulik in the 1950s and 60s. It investigates the cross-cultural interactions and hybridisation that occurred during the process and afterwards.
Author: Sabrina Yuan Hao
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9004682511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1977-11-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226848631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
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Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2023-02-22
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1667681702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee's celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new bride, and an unsolved murder in a small town — these crimes launch Judge Dee down the great silk routes and even into graveyards to consult the spirits of the dead. With his keen analytical wit, can he discover the killers? First of the Judge Dee books, translated by Robert van Gulik.
Author: Robert Hans Van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780226848648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780226848761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0060751401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0226849074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty. In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery. “If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes.”—Robert Kirsch, Los AngelesTimes “The title of this book and the book itself have much in common. Each is a jewel, a rare and precious find.”—AtlantaTimes
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Published: 1976
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