1st Edition
The Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories A Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Yan Wei
Copyright 2023
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book views the Dutch sinologist, Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East–West form of detective fiction and uses the concept of transculturation to discuss their hybrid nature with respect to their sources, production, and influence.
The Judge Dee mysteries authored by Robert van Gulik (1910–1967) were the first detective stories to be set in ancient China. These hybrid... Read more
1: Hybridity in the English Translation Dee Goong An, 2: Tradition and Innovation in Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries, 3: Judge Dee Goes Home: Chinese Translations of Judge Dee Mysteries and New Stories of Judge Dee
Biography
Yan WEI (PhD, Harvard University, 2009) is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in the fields of modern Chinese literature, popular literature, and sinophone literature.
