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They can be read independently of each other however, the challenge is to find and read the entire 15-book series. They didn’t smoke tobacco and opium, which were introduced into China only many centuries later.' A few book titles include: The Lacquer Screen, The Chinese Lake Murders, The Chinese Bell Murder, and The Emperor's Pearl. Men did their long hair up in a topknot, wore caps both inside and outside the house.

In the colophon of one of the books, Van Gulik states that 'in Judge Dee's time the Chinese wore no pig-tails. Reading this series of books, one will learn about the history of China during that period, Chinese law and procedure (including torture and punishment), Chinese society in general, and see illustrations interspersed throughout the books done as if from Chinese woodcuts and classical drawings. Van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and scholar of 'things Chinese,' used data and incidents from old crime literature that he had translated. Robert Hans Van Gulik took this historical figure, Judge Dee, and wrote fiction in the Chinese detective style with Judge Dee as the main character. He was famous as a 'detector of crime,' and according to Van Gulik, the Chinese today consider him their 'master detective,' as popular as Sherlock Holmes is to us. In works such as Dee Goong An, Judge Dee solves three murders independently of one another during the same time period. As it turns out, Judge Dee was a real person, a famous statesmen and magistrate of the Tang dynasty. The preface of this book discusses the characteristics of Chinese detective stories, a brief overview and analysis of Chinese law, and the background for more studies. So who is Judge Dee? In The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee ( Dee Goong An) by an anonymous author and translated by Robert Hans Van Gulik, we begin to learn about him. One of the books has the chronology of all the books.They’re not easy to find.' If you have the whole collection of books, you are holding onto something valuable. 'They are found in the mystery sections of bookstores. When the discussion turned to these books, there was a lot of murmuring in the audience and several people's hands shot up to share more information. I, of course was interested in China, and the Judge Dee murder mysteries caught my eye. We were given a booklist categorized by country. This also was the next best thing to visiting the countries in person. The main idea of the session was to encourage us to read books (particularly fiction), and gain a perspective of the people and the culture of Asian countries. (Even the session leaders admitted, 'It got you here, didn't it?') I was relieved that it proved interesting. Book Review: The Celebrated Cases of Judge DeeĪbout five years ago at a conference, I attended a session that had a catchy title, Tao, Zen, and You.

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