Robert van Gulik and his Chinese Sherlock Holmes : the global travels of Judge Dee / by Sabrina Yuan Hao.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author's unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions - traditional Chinese gong'an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart - bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

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Making a case : characterizing the filial son / Maram Epstein -- Explaining the shrew : narratives of spousal violence and the critique of masculinity in eighteenth-century criminal cases / Janet Theiss -- Between oral and written cultures : Buddhist monks in Qing legal plaints / Yasuhiko Karasawa -- Art of persuasion in literature and law / Robert E. Hegel -- Filial felons : leniency and legal reasoning in Qing China / Thomas Buoye -- Discourse on insolvency and negligence in eighteenth-century China / Pengsheng Chiu -- Poverty tales and statutory politics in mid-Qing fraud cases / Mark McNicholas -- Indictment rituals and the judicial continuum in late Imperial China / Paul R. Katz -- Reading court cases from the Song and the Ming : fact and fiction, law and literature / James St. André -- Beyond Bao : moral ambiguity and the law in late Imperial Chinese narrative literature / Daniel M. Youd -- Genre and justice in late Qing China : Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and its antecedents / Katherine Carlitz -- Interpretive communities : legal meaning in Qing law / Jonathan Ocko.

Scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions consider the influence of the Ming and Qing dynasties legal culture on literature and the influence of literary conventions on the presentation of legal case.

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Online access via Gleeson Library.