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Judge Dee: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the Haunted Monastery, Necklace and Calabash, the Chinese Bell Murders, Murder in Canton

Judge Dee: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the Haunted Monastery, Necklace and Calabash, the Chinese Bell Murders, Murder in Canton


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Chapters: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the Haunted Monastery, Necklace and Calabash, the Chinese Bell Murders, Murder in Canton, the Chinese Lake Murders, the Willow Pattern, the Emperor's Pearl, the Red Pavilion, the Chinese Maze Murders, the Phantom of the Temple, Poets and Murder, Judge Dee at Work, the Chinese Gold Murders, the Monkey and the Tiger, the Lacquer Screen, the Chinese Nail Murders. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Judge Dee (also, Judge Di) is the titular protagonist of Robert van Gulik's series of detective novels. The series is set in Ancient China and deals with various criminal cases solved by the upright Judge Dee (judges often play the investigator role in ancient Chinese crime stories). The Judge Dee character is based on the historical figure Di Renjie (c. 630c. 700), magistrate and statesman of the Tang court. During the Ming Dynasty (13681644) in China, a "folk novel" was written set in former times, but filled with anachronisms. Van Gulik found in the 18th century Di Gong An ( Chinese: Pinyin: di gng an, lit. "Cases of Judge Dee") an original tale dealing with three cases simultaneously, and, which was unusual among Chinese mystery tales, a plot that for the most part lacked an overbearing supernatural element which could alienate Western readers. He translated it into English and had it published under the title Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. This gave van Gulik the idea of writing his own novels, set with the similar Ming anachronisms, but using the historical character. Van Gulik was careful in writing the main novels to deal with cases where Dee was newly appointed to a city, thereby isolating him from the existing lifestyle and enabling him to maintain an objective role in the books. Van Gulik's novels and sto...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=908305


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155364407
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 91 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155364406
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the Haunted Monastery, Necklace and Calabash, the Chinese Bell Murders, Murder in Canton
  • Width: 229 mm


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