Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
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| Recent Dover Publications edition - Aug 1976 | |
| Author | unknown |
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| Original title (if not in English) | Dee Goong An |
| Translator | Robert van Gulik |
| Country | China |
| Language | Chinese |
| Series | Judge Dee |
| Genre(s) | Mystery, Detective Novel |
| Publisher | Dover Publications (Eng. trans.) |
| Released | unknown 18th cent (Eng. trans. 1949) |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp (Eng. trans. paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-486-23337-5 (Eng. trans. paperback edition) |
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is an 18th century Chinese detective novel, Dee Goong An (lit. Cases of Judge Dee). It is loosely based on the adventures of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630-700.
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The original Chinese novel contains cultural elements of Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) rather than Tang Dynasty China, which may have been done deliberately or from ignorance about Tang era China.
The Dee Goong An was translated by Robert van Gulik into English and used as the basis for his own series of detective novels about Judge Dee after he came across it in a secondhand bookshop in Tokyo.
