Robert van Gulik and his Chinese Sherlock Holmes : : the global travels of Judge Dee / / by Sabrina Yuan Hao.

• Superior document: Textxet ; volume 103
• VerfasserIn: Yuan Hao, Sabrina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet ; volume 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 pages).

"In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author's unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions - traditional Chinese gong'an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart - bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures -- ‎Introduction -- ‎1. Anglophone Crime Fiction and Diversified Ethnicity -- ‎2. Global Crime Fiction -- ‎3. Orientalism, Hybridity, and Globalisation -- ‎Chapter 1. A Man of Three Lives: Life, Scholarship and Judge Dee Fiction -- ‎1. Sources of Biographical Information -- ‎2. Early Years and Education -- ‎3. Diplomatic Career -- ‎4. A Man of Letters and Scholarship -- ‎5. Judge Dee as Biographical Writing: Diplomacy, Scholarship, and Fiction -- ‎5.1. Diplomatic Career and Judge Dee Fiction -- ‎5.2. Scholarship and Judge Dee Fiction -- ‎Chapter 2. Gong'an Literature: A Literary Tradition -- ‎1. Gong'an Literature in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (960-1368) -- ‎1.1. The Legal Case Book -- ‎1.2. Zuiweng Tanlu and hua'ben gong'an Stories of the Song and Yuan Dynasties -- ‎1.3. Gong'an Plays of the Yuan (1271-1368) -- ‎2. Gong'an in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) -- ‎2.1. Collections of gong'an Short Stories -- ‎2.2. Hua'ben gong'an Stories of the Ming Period -- ‎3. Gong'an in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) -- ‎3.1. The Full-Length Novel -- ‎4. Narrative Pattern: Story Recycling -- ‎Chapter 3. Globalising Judge Dee: Halved Translation and Hybridised Narrative -- ‎1.. Anglo-American Crime Fiction as a Global Genre -- ‎2.. Van Gulik's Adaptation: Translation and Creation -- ‎2.1. Halved Translation: Setting up the Pattern -- ‎2.2. Creation: Sources and the Retellings -- ‎2.3. Creation: Adapting Narrative Features-the Chapter Title -- ‎2.4. Creation: Adapting Narrative Features-the Three-Case Structure -- ‎Chapter 4. The Globalised Judge Dee: Hybridised Representation of Gender and Sexuality -- ‎1. Gendering Crime Fiction: The Classic and the Hard-Boiled -- ‎2. Representing the Male: Hybridised Detective Hero and Authorial Identification -- ‎2.1. Judge Dee as a Rational and Hard-Boiled Detective.

‎2.2. Judge Dee as a Confucian Scholar-Official -- ‎2.3. Judge Dee and His Four Assistants -- ‎2.4. Authorial Identification: The Construction of an Ideal Ego -- ‎3. Representing the Female: Hybridised Eroticism -- ‎3.1. Chinese Erotic Pictures: Erotic Paintings and Colour Prints -- ‎3.2. Hybridised Judge Dee Illustrations -- ‎4. The Combined Male Gaze: Scopophilic, Voyeuristic, and Sadistic -- ‎4.1. Voyeuristic and Sadistic -- ‎Chapter 5. Localising the Global: Judge Dee Returns Home and the Chinese Translations -- ‎1. Introducing Western Detective Fiction: The First Tidal Wave -- ‎2. Translating Western Detective Fiction: The Second Tidal Wave and the Translation of Van Gulik's Judge Dee Series -- ‎3. Localised Rewriting: The Influence of Ideologies -- ‎3.1. Sexual Ideologies: Traditional and Contemporary -- ‎3.2. Ideologised Translation: The Text -- ‎3.3. Ideologised Illustrations -- ‎4. Localised Rewriting: The Dominant and the Personalised Poetics -- ‎4.1. Prevalent Poetics: The Readership -- ‎4.2. Translators' Poetics: The gong'an -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.