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



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Page: 237
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Robert Van Gulik (translator); Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel (Dover Publications, Inc.; 1976; ISBN 0-486-23337-5; cover by Robert Van Gulik). 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. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Detective Novel. Robert van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and writer, found a copy of the novel, titled Dee Goong An, in a used bookstore. 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. He later translated the novel into English and published it as The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. Of his own detective stories featuring Dee Goong An or “Judge Dee”. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee was written by an unknown author in the 18th century. Smearing the Ghost's Face with Ink: A Chinese Anthology. The book differs in several respects from to learn about Tang Dynasty China, this is it. In the Ming Dynasty (18th century), a Chinese historical detective novel was written about a crime solving magistrate called Judge Dee, a figure based on Di Renjie. CELEBRATED CASES OF JUDGE DEE (DEE GOONG AN), translated by Robert Van Gulik. 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. This martial arts film is based on historical events during the Tang Dynasty, when the Emperor's widow was poised to become Empress of China in spite of opposition from numerous officials and lords who preferred patriarchal arrangements.





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