Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
An Authentic EighteenthCentury Chinese Detective Novel

This first Judge Dee novel ( a historical figure, Di Renjie, A.D. 630-700, during the Tang Dynasty, who later became the powerful chancellor of the nation, at the Imperial Court) , is a translation of a 18th century Chinese detective book by Dutch scholar, Robert van Gulik written anonymously back t......more

At the heart of this book is a story that involves a lot of bondage, torture, beating, sexual passion, near-nudity and paranormal phenomena. Yes, as with so many things, the Chinese did paranormal BDSM centuries before the current craze sweeping America. But, ironically, in this book the paranormal el......more

I'm giving this one 5 stars not because it's the most brilliant detective novel ever, though it is quite compelling and entertaining, but because it's an astounding early-eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel, quite "modern" in lots of ways, that was written more than a century before anything......more

Dunque: ho letto questo romanzo perché formalmente potrebbe essere considerato il primo della serie del Giudice Dee - del quale ormai sono diventata una grande fan, e continuo ad accumulare eBook finché non completerò tutti e 17 i romanzi. Non è però un romanzo che fa parte della serie in modo strett......more

Tento bezvýznamný si nadává do tupé psí hlavy, že tak dlouho ignoroval otce i matku svého života neskonale moudrého soudce Ti. Ještě než sinolog Gulik rozjel svou vlastní řadu o soudci Ti, tak přeložil autentický dobový čínský detektivní román z 18. století sepsaný pravděpodobně skutečným soudcem té......more