It is available as part of the Playstation Now streaming service. 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.Book Review: The Celebrated Cases of Judge DeeJudge Dee: The City God Case is a video game. The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the Tang Empire.

Inspired by an anonymous 18th century Chinese novel (literally, Four Great Strange Cases of Empress Wu s Reign), translated by Van Gulik as Dee Goong An (1949), APA Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. In chronological order (663 - 681) See also Judge Dee (publication order). 17 primary works 18 total works. Trophies Edit.Judge Dee (Chronological order) Series.

He was famous as a 'detector of crime,' and according to Van Gulik, the Chinese today consider him their 'master detective,' as popular as Sherlock Holmes is to us.Robert Hans Van Gulik took this historical figure, Judge Dee, and wrote fiction in the Chinese detective style with Judge Dee as the main character. In works such as Dee Goong An, Judge Dee solves three murders independently of one another during the same time period. As it turns out, Judge Dee was a real person, a famous statesmen and magistrate of the Tang dynasty.

(I have 12.) Finding them can occur only when you discover which book has the chronology in it. They can be read independently of each other however, the challenge is to find and read the entire 15-book series. They didnвЂ™t smoke tobacco and opium, which were introduced into China only many centuries later.' A few book titles include: The Lacquer Screen, The Chinese Lake Murders, The Chinese Bell Murder, and The Emperor's Pearl. Men did their long hair up in a topknot, wore caps both inside and outside the house. In the colophon of one of the books, Van Gulik states that 'in Judge Dee's time the Chinese wore no pig-tails. Reading this series of books, one will learn about the history of China during that period, Chinese law and procedure (including torture and punishment), Chinese society in general, and see illustrations interspersed throughout the books done as if from Chinese woodcuts and classical drawings.

You'll be surprised how easily you have been taken back. You will not be held in breathtaking suspense, but you will find yourself listening in on intriguing conversations. This is light and pleasurable reading. They are thin paperbacks, sometimes concentrating on one case others have a couple of stories within one book.The books follow a similar pattern вЂ” the crime is committed and the reader then follows Judge Dee and his assistants as they discover how it was done and by whom. A clue: I did not find all the books in one place or part of the country. Then you can read them in their historical order.

An immensely appealing and exotic locale, a duel between Confucianism and Taoism, romance, a monstrous murderer, a damsel in distress, a dauntless hero and more atmosphere than you can shake a chopstick at. Select the title of your choice.The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story (A Judge Dee Mystery)The Haunted Monastery: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee Mystery)The Haunted Monastery is possibly the best of the Judge Dee novels. And in this case it was indeed the murdered man's personality that supplied the key.'The 'not so easy to find' selection of Judge Dee Mysteries may be purchased through our online associated bookstore. There it is stated again and again that the first step of a murder investigation is to ascertain the character, daily life and habits of the victim.

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