The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth Century Chinese Detective Novel by Robert H. van Gulik

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth Century Chinese Detective Novel



The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth Century Chinese Detective Novel book

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth Century Chinese Detective Novel Robert H. van Gulik ebook
ISBN: 9780486233376
Publisher: Dover Publications
Page: 237
Format: pdf


Of his own detective stories featuring Dee Goong An or “Judge Dee”. Judge Dee Goong An is based on 7th century historical figure Di Renjie, a magistrate of the court during the T'ang dynasty. Van Gulik Now he must discover the real killer in order to clear his name. Furthermore, he declared that he translated the Dee Goong An in order to give Western readers something more authentic than Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. Van Gulik, who was raised in Indonesia and held a doctorate in Asian studies, got the idea to start his own series after he translated an 18th century collection of Chinese mystery stories, which he titled “The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee” ( 1949). Van Gulik found in the 18th century Di Gong An ( lit. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee was written by an unknown author in the 18th century. Yet he acknowledged that he had to choose carefully to find and translate a Chinese detective novel he felt would be accessible to Western readers, the eighteenth-century Dee Goong An, or Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. 600-900), though in the novel itself elements of Ming Dynasty China (A.D. The main character of this book, Judge Dee, was based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie, who lived in the seventh century during the Tang Dynasty (A.D. The book differs in several respects from to learn about Tang Dynasty China, this is it. The reader knows from the start who the real guilty party is (although the text tries to backtrack on that), so it's more like Columbo than Agatha Christie, but it's definitely a detective story. DEE GOONG AN is an anonymously-written novel from the 18th century, about three fictional cases solved by Dee, and van Gulik translated it in the mid 20th. Smearing the Ghost's Face with Ink: A Chinese Anthology. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Detective Novel. During World War II Robert van Gulik translated the 18th-century detective novel Dee Goong An into English under the title Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (first published in Tokyo in 1949).





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