The Chinese Nail Murders

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Mystery
The Cliinesc Nail T^iirdcrs
Imperial China, Tang dynasty, seventh century A.D.—home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. A near mythic figure in the pre-Communist Chinese consciousness, Judge Dee distinguished himself as tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore.
The Chinese Nail Murders is one of a series of Judge Dee detective novels written in the 1950s by Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. Van Gulik drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. His Judge Dee stories convey a more vivid insight into traditional China than can be gained from textbooks, monographs, and documents. They provide an atmospheric introduction to life in imperial China at the local level before it was disrupted by external forces.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Mystery
The Cliinesc Nail T^iirdcrs
Imperial China, Tang dynasty, seventh century A.D.—home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. A near mythic figure in the pre-Communist Chinese consciousness, Judge Dee distinguished himself as tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore.
The Chinese Nail Murders is one of a series of Judge Dee detective novels written in the 1950s by Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. Van Gulik drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. His Judge Dee stories convey a more vivid insight into traditional China than can be gained from textbooks, monographs, and documents. They provide an atmospheric introduction to life in imperial China at the local level before it was disrupted by external forces.
"A rich new vein of detective fiction is worked by Mr. van Gulik . . . entertaining, instructive and oddly impressive. Judge Dee, the officers of his tribunal and the people with whom he and they are concerned are interesting folk, and the world of crime, mystery, violence, lust, corruption and ceremony in which they move is formidably picturesque."-Times Literary Supplement
This new edition includes van Gulik's maps, his illustrations (based on sixteenth-century pictorial blockprints), and an introduction by Donald F. Lach of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
Also available: The Chinese Bell Murders, The Chinese Gold Murders, and The Chinese Lake Murders Vissza