Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories - A Cross-Cultural Perspective

This book views the Dutch Sinologist, Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East-West form of detective fiction and uses the concept of transculturation to discuss their hybrid nature with respect to their sources, production, and influence.

List of contents

1: Hybridity in the English Translation Dee Goong An, 2: Tradition and Innovation in Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries, 3: Judge Dee Goes Home: Chinese Translations of Judge Dee Mysteries and New Stories of Judge Dee

About the author

Yan WEI (PhD, Harvard University, 2009) is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in the fields of modern Chinese literature, popular literature, and sinophone literature.

Summary

This book views the Dutch Sinologist, Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East-West form of detective fiction and uses the concept of transculturation to discuss their hybrid nature with respect to their sources, production, and influence.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Wei
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032314167
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231416-7
• No. of pages: 122
• Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Comparative Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; China, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Comparative Literature, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Crime and mystery fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form