Linking about: Dee Goong An
I'm currently teaching Dee Goong An (the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee) in Robert van Gulik's translation. Most readers familiar with the character only know van Gulik's own Judge Dee novels, and not the eighteenth-century Chinese original. Some useful links:
- A biographical sketch of van Gulik from Radio Netherlands.
- Birger Nielsen's Robert van Gulik bibliography.
- Chinese Heroes page on Judge Dee.
- Brief nineteenth-century biographical sketch of Di Renjie/Ti Jen-Chieh.
- Wikipedia page for Di Renjie.
- A van Gulik/Judge Dee page.
- A brief anecdote about Di Renjie from the tenth century, from David Faure.
- Another tale, translated into German.
- Yet another anecdote, this time courtesy of Mark Elvin.
- Here's what the first edition of van Gulik's translation looked like.
- Kelly L. Ross' Judge Dee page: includes an internal chronology of the van Gulik novels.
- Joan Cook Wilson on Asian detective literature as a teaching tool.