To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Poets and Murder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poets and Murder
First edition (UK)
AuthorRobert van Gulik
SeriesJudge Dee
GenreGong'an fiction, Mystery, Detective novel, Crime
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date
1968
Media typePrint
Pages174 pp
ISBN9780434825578
OCLC34722109
823/.914 20
LC ClassPR6057.U45 P64 1996
Preceded byNecklace and Calabash 
Followed byNone 

Poets and Murder is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.

The book features eight illustrations by the author along with a detailed layout of the residence where the action takes place.

Poets and Murder was the last Judge Dee novel written by Robert van Gulik. He completed it just before his death from cancer in 1967. The book was published one year after his death.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    1 631
    77 767
    1 383 836
  • THE POET OF DEATH - SERIAL KILLER JACK UNTERWEGER - Discovery Biography Crime (documentary)
  • Writing | Poetry Writing Exercise & Workshop Review {with captions!}
  • Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39

Transcription

Plot introduction

Judge Dee is a magistrate in the fictional Poo-yang district, a wealthy area through which the Grand Canal of China runs (part of modern-day Jiangsu province). During the mid-autumn festival in the city of Chin-hwa, Judge Dee is a guest of a small group of distinguished scholars. However, he learns during dinner that a young girl has been murdered and the accused is a beautiful poet. She is thought to have whipped her maidservant to death. Then the body of a student is also discovered. The poet is based on Chinese courtesan and poet Yu Xuanji.[1]

Poo-yang was the setting for many Judge Dee stories including: The Emperor's Pearl, The Chinese Bell Murders, Necklace and Calabash, and The Red Pavilion.

The book was also published in the US under the title of The Fox Magic Murders.

Background

The case of the poet is based on a real case, concerning Yü Hsüan-chi.[2]

References

  1. ^ Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue (2014). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming, 618-1644. M.E. Sharpe. p. 571. ISBN 9780765643162.
  2. ^ van Gulik, Robert (1968). Poets and Murder. Heinemann. p. 174. ISBN 9780226848761. LCCN 68140989.


This page was last edited on 23 January 2024, at 06:00
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.