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The Red Pavilion : a Judge Dee mystery / by Robert van Gulik, with six illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967.
- Series:
- Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967. Judge Dee mystery
- A Judge Dee mystery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Di, Renjie, 629-700--Fiction.
- Di, Renjie.
- Di, Renjie, 629-700.
- China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907--Fiction.
- China.
- History.
- Judges--Fiction.
- Judges.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- University of Chicago Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. ""The Red Pavilion is one of the best novels in this excellent series."--Art Goodwin, WHEN-TV "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 popular detective novels that appeared in the seventeenth century.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967. Red Pavilion.
- ISBN:
- 0226848736
- 9780226848730
- OCLC:
- 29670656
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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