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The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story (Paperback or Softback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- EAN
- 9780226848679
- ISBN
- 0226848671
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Lacquer Screen : a Chinese Detective Story
- Item Length
- 7in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
- Item Width
- 4.8in
- Item Weight
- 7.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 194 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226848671
ISBN-13
9780226848679
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73231
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lacquer Screen : a Chinese Detective Story
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
194 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
4.8in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9130.9.G8 L3 1992
Table of Content
Judge Dee Has Tea with Magistrate Teng Judge Dee and Chiao Tai Take a Bath Magistrate Teng Hears the Banker Leng Chien The Taproom of the Phoenix Inn Magistrate Teng Discovers His Wife Chiao Tai Watches a Charming Lady Kun-shan Angrily Leaves the Restaurant Judge Dee and Carnation Judge Dee and Pan Yoo-te in Mr. Ko's Bedroom Commotion in the Phoenix Inn
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
92-018040
Dewey Decimal
823
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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