The Transculturation of Judge Dee Stories

A Cross-Cultural Perspective
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31416-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 210 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Chinese Comparative Literature and Culture

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 narratives combine Chinese historical figures, traditional Chinese crime literature, and Chinese history and material culture with ratiocinative methods and psychoanalytic themes familiar from Western detective fiction. This new subject and detective image won a global readership, and the book discusses the innovations that van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries brought to both Chinese gong’an literature and Western detective fiction. Furthermore, it introduces contemporary writers from different countries who specialize in writing detective fiction or gong’an novels set in ancient China.

The book will meet the interest of fans of Judge Dee stories throughout the world and will also appeal to both students and researchers of comparative literature, Chinese literature, and crime novels studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wei, Yan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.