Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century bltadwin.ru Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee: An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel (Library) CD-ROM – MP3 Audio, June 1, by Yuri Rasovsky (Editor), Mark Bramhall (Reader), Lorna Raver (Reader), Stefan Rudnicki (Reader), Robert van Gulik (Translator) 2 more. out of 5 stars.5/5(3). Robert H. Van Gulik was born in the Netherlands on August 9, He joined the Dutch Foreign Service in From , he was secretary for the Dutch mission to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government in Chongqing, China. During this time, he translated a number of Chinese texts including Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An).2/5(2).
In his preface to Celebrated Cases Dr. van Gulik mused: "The novel Dee Goong An is offered here in a complete translation. Possibly it would have had a wider appeal if it had been entirely re-written in a form more familiar to our readers." That was a brilliant idea, and soon Robert van Gulik was writing his own Judge Dee novels, targeted at English-speaking, Japanese and Chinese readerships. Robert H. Van Gulik was born in the Netherlands on August 9, He joined the Dutch Foreign Service in From , he was secretary for the Dutch mission to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government in Chongqing, China. During this time, he translated a number of Chinese texts including Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An). During World War II 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 ). The main character of this book, Judge Dee, was based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie, who lived in the 7th century, during the Tang Dynasty (AD ), though in the novel itself elements of Ming.
The title given, "Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee", is what Van Gulik assumed the original work was called, before the second part was added. However, he never actually obtained a copy of that original work or a conclusive evidence that it had existed under that name. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee: An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel (Library) [Yuri Rasovsky, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Stefan Rudnicki, Robert van Gulik] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In chronological order ( - ) See also Judge Dee (publication order). Inspired by an anonymous 18th century Chinese novel (literally, Four Great Strange Cases of Empress Wu s Reign), translated by Van Gulik as Dee Goong An (), APA Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee () Judge Dee, magistrate in China during the Tang Dynasty (s): Series Địch C.
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