A Judge Dee Detective Story - The Chinese Bell Murders A Judge Dee Detective Story - The Chinese Bell Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story - The Chinese Bell Murders

China's Sherlock Holmes

    • 4.8 • 4 Ratings

Publisher Description

The Chinese crime or courtroom novel was a later form of one of the main genres of the colloquial narrative tradition— the detective story. From the time of the Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1279), and probably much earlier, the common people delighted in listening to the tales of the storytellers who performed in the bazaars or on the streets of cities and towns. One of the popular detective heroes of the storytellers was Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh), a historical personage and statesman of the T'ang court who lived from A.D. 630 to 700. He and other magistrates, especially Pao Cheng (A.D. 999-1062), were celebrated by storytellers, dramatists, and novelists. In the process the histori¬cal deeds of the judge became the basis for legendary accom¬plishments in detection, unswervingly right conduct, and super¬human insight. The judge-detective became the central figure of a stereotype that permeated all forms of popular literature.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2013
May 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
236
Pages
PUBLISHER
Classic press
SELLER
ronghue xiang
SIZE
20.1
MB

Customer Reviews

phibetakitty ,

Great novel, poor edition

The Judge Dee series by
Robert van Gulik are delightful and classic, I recommend them whole-heartedly. Unfortunately the lower cost edition for sale on iBooks is a scanned version that someone photographed from a book. It is not actual text but a picture of the text, which means you can't enlarge the print, which is very tiny on an iPhone. I don't know what it would be like on an iPad.

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