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Robert van Gulik

Poets and Murder

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7th century
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academic
ancient world
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brothel
calligraphy
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china
chinese
clever
crime
criminal
dance
dancer
death
demon
detective
dynasty
easy read
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folklore
fox
fun
haunted
historical
history
judge dee
killing
magistrate
monk
murderer
mysterious
mystery
page turner
performance
performer
poetry
puzzle
recurring character
series
shrine
student
t'ang
zen

Product details

  • ISBN 9780226848761
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 14 x 20mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2005
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she dresses to perform for the magistrate's illustrious dinner guests - an obese Zen monk revered for his calligraphy, a beautiful poetess accused of murder, and the past president of the imperial academy. To connect the present crimes with betrayals and adulteries from decades past, the clever judge must visit a high-class brothel and the haunted shrine of the Black Fox. From the moment the young scholar is found dead on the eve of the Autumn Festival, the pace never lets up.
About Robert van Gulik
Robert van Gulik (1910 - 67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture, drew his plots and literary conventions from the popular detective novels that appeared in seventeenth-century China.