The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story - Couverture souple

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Van Gulik, Robert

 
9780226848679: The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story
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ISBN 10 : 0226848671 ISBN 13 : 9780226848679
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate.

"One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-—New York Times Book Review

"Even Judge Dee is baffled by Robert van Gulik's new mysteries in The Lacquer Screen. Disguised as a petty crook, he spends a couple of precarious days in the headquarters of the underworld, hobnobbing with the robber king. Dee's lively thieving friends furnish some vital clues to this strange and fascinating jigsaw."-—The Spectator

"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-—New York Times

Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226848671
ISBN 13 
9780226848679
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
194
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780434825608: The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0434825603 ISBN 13 :  9780434825608
Editeur : Heinemann, 1969
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