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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert van Gulik is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee about?
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. These judges held a unique position. As "fathers to the people" they were at once judge and detective, responsible for all aspects of keeping the peace and for discovering, capturing, and punishing criminals.One of the most celebrated historical magistrates was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century A.D. This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction — these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the great silk routes, through clever disguises, into ancient graveyards where he consults the spirits of the dead, and through some clever deduction.After translating Dee Goong An, Robert Van Gulik continued the adventures of Judge Dee in fiction he wrote himself. This, however
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Robert van Gulik
- Publisher
- Dover
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Crime, Detective & Crime Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (1,288 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13