Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories (Judge Dee Mysteries)

The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T’ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series. Judge Dee presided over his Imperial Chinese court with a brand of Confucian justice. A near-mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. This book contains eight short stories which cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the Tang Empire. This case occurred in A.D. 663 when Judge Dee had been serving only a week in his first independent official post-Magistrate of Peng-lai, a remote district on the north-east coast of the Chinese Empire. A collection of eight stories about Judge Dee, covering a decade in which the judge served in four different provinces of the Tang Empire, dispensing his own brand of Confucian justice By Robert Van Gulik ; With Illustrations Drawn By The Author In Chinese Style.