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Van Gulik continued to write Judge Dee stories until his death in 1967. In the chronology of Judge Dee's life, van Gulik at first wrote books from his later life and then moved forward. Van Gulik evidently rewrote the three books slightly for the editions in English, since there is a reference in the Maze Murders to the Bell Murders and a reference in the Bell Murders to the Lake Murders, even though the latter books were written subsequent, not prior, to the former ones. The English preface of The Chinese Maze Murders is dated 1956 - after the 1951 Japanese and the 1953 Chinese editions. Van Gulik had actually written his stories first in English, and he soon decided to proceed with their publication in that language also.
It also made it easier to write the stories, since much more was known about Ming daily life than about T'ang.
This anachronism, however, reflected the habit of the Chinese literature. They were also deliberately anachronistic in using Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) clothing, customs, and culture in describing events in the T'ang Dynasty, seven hundred years earlier. Van Gulik's stories were completely fictional in filling in the details of this early life of Judge Dee, his cases, official postings, family, etc. The biographies, however, only cover his later career, as a major official in the T'ang Court.Įarlier, Dee had begun as a District Magistrate,, the person who was the judge, police chief, and administrator in the smallest unit of the Empire of China, usually just one city and the surrounding countryside. Van Gulik mentions that biographies of Dee can be found in the Old History of the T'ang Dynasty (the Jiu Tangshu of 945, chapter 89) and the New History of the T'ang Dynasty (the Xin Tangshu, by Ou-yang Hsiu and Sung Ch'i, of 1060, chapter 115). These all used the character of the same T'ang,, Dynasty (618-907) statesman and jurist as was found in the Dee Goong An, a real person, Ti Jen-chieh,, who lived from 630 to 700. These books were successful, and van Gulik wrote two more, The Chinese Bell Murders and The Chinese Lake Murders.
This was published in Japanese in 1951 and in Chinese in 1953. So, he decided to revive the literature himself, by writing the The Chinese Maze Murders. The publication of the Dee Goong An did not have quite the effect van Gulik wished, since it did not inspire a revival of the literature. We see as "justice," literally "public" or "legal uprightness." "Justice" can also be, "upright righteousness." For this, we want to see Judge Dee in action. The second reading looks like the right one, as discussed further below. His first effort in that direction was to translate and publish in 1949 one of the old stories, the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee or the Dee Goong An:, Ti Kung An in Wade-Giles or Dí Gong Àn in Pinyin - the "Cases of Judge Dee." The title is somewhat ambiguous since, the familiar kôan in Japanese Zen Buddhism, can mean a legal case, so that the title could be Dí Gongàn, "Legal Cases of Dee" or gong can mean "official" or "judge" (or the feudal rank of "Duke") and, "case," all by itself, so that the title would be be the "Cases," Àn, of "Judge Dee," Dígong. Thus, after the war, van Gulik sought first of all to bring its existence to the notice of both Eastern and Western audiences and he hoped to inspire Chinese and Japanese writers to revive the tradition, rather than just imitate or translate Western detective stories. Many people even in China and Japan, however, were also unaware of the literature, since it was no longer being produced. In the course of his research, and then while working at diplomatic posts in Japan and China before and during World War II, van Gulik had gotten interested in the long tradition of Chinese detective and crime literature, the existence of which most Westerners were and probably are unaware.
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I did not realize until two or three years later, when I started finding Judge Dee books in Austin, that the TV movie was based on The Haunted Monastery, one of many Judge Dee stories by the Dutch diplomat and scholar, Robert van Gulik (1910-1967).
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The series was called Khan, but it moved Khigh Dhiegh from the T'ang Dynasty to the present. This starred Khigh Dhiegh in the title role and was intended as the pilot for a TV series. The first I ever heard of Judge Dee ( ) was from a TV movie I saw when I was living in Hawaii in 1974, Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders.
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