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Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story (Judge Dee Mysteries)
Robert Van Gulik
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Description for Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story (Judge Dee Mysteries)
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 168.
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name ... Read more
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226848709
SKU
V9780226848709
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Robert Van Gulik
Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.
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