Judge Dee at Work - Eight Chinese Detective Stories

Informationen zum Autor Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute. Klappentext The eight short stories in "Judge Dee at Work" cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T'ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series. Zusammenfassung Judge Dee presided over his Imperial Chinese court with a brand of Confucian justice. A near-mythic figure in China! he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate! inquisitor! and public avenger. This book contains eight short stories which cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the Tang Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik, Robert van Gulik
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1992
• EAN: 9780226848662
• ISBN: 978-0-226-84866-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Judge Dee Mysteries; Judge Dee Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction