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Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226848639
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:436922841
Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316192533
Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:810720618
Author : Robert H. Van Gulik
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 0747401764
The last of the Judge Dee series. Judge Dee is a 7th century magistrate/detective who always has three crimes to solve. In the first, a headless body is found; in the second, a poisoning occurs; and finally a cotton-maker is killed.
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:6002558
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667632285
In the year 666, Judge Dee, the newly appointed magistrate of the fictional town of Han-yuan, must solve three murders. Han-yuan is an isolated town famous for its floating brothels or "flower boats". The murders seem to be related but just how they are connected is a mystery. The whole investigation turns into a maze of political intrigue, sordid greed, and dark passions.
Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786496211
From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor's behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik's influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486233376
Tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486235028
In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000383617
Author : Sabrina Yuan Hao
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004682511
In 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 : Alien Ebooks
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667632346
Judge Dee, magistrate of Poo-yang a flourishing walled city on the Grand Canal, is attending the Dragon Boat races accompanied by his three ladies aboard his own official barge. He is mildly annoyed by the intrusions of assorted callers and the loss of a blank domino (he and his ladies are keen players). He is more than annoyed when the sad, sudden death of a young student crewing one of the boats turns out to be deliberate murder.
Even more disturbing is the murder of the young Second Lady of a prominent local merchant and collector which is witnessed by the Judge himself. Obviously very odd things are going on at the deserted villa at the edge of the River Goddess's overgrown mandrake grove! Throw in an apparently cursed Imperial Treasure and a perverted madman and the Judge has his hands full.
Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667632353
Two tales of Judge Dee. "The Morning of the Monkey" is set in the fictional city of Han-yuan in the year 666. One morning a gibbon drops an emerald ring right at the entrance to Judge Dee's house. This leads to the discovery of a strangely mutilated body in the nearby forest.
"The Night of the Tiger" takes place a decade later, when Judge Dee is returning to the capital at Chang'an and bandits force him to take cover in an isolated country house. There, he must fight off the vicious cut-throats as well as solve a murder.
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667632414
In Judge Dee’s day, the literary world of Ancient China was one where intense study and almost ritualized scholarship were the rule, with academics and students alike dedicated to the highest concepts of beauty and art. But inwardly less exalted passions could erupt—to the point of murder.
During a Mid-autumn Festival in Chin-hwa Judge Dee is the fellow-guest of a small group of distinguished literati. Alas, he has little time for the criticism of couplets or calligraphy. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries seem to lie in the eerie shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.
