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Robert Van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes : The Global Travels of Judge Dee by Sabrina Yuan Hao is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on resea
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sabrina Yuan Hao
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004682511
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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