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A chance encounter with Musjöö Liblikas, the most powerful fashion man on the Dusk Coast of the Oblivion River, leads Kumari Vaim to investigate corrupt officials. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Vaim is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution. /.../

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The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery
by Robert van Gulik (Author) Format: Paperback
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (322)
Part of: Judge Dee Mysteries (12 books)

ISBN-13: 978-0226848730 ISBN-10: 0226848736 Edition: 1st

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution. 

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"Entertaining, instructive and oddly impressive. Judge Dee, the officers of his tribunal and the people with whom he and they are concerned are interesting folk, and the world of crime, mystery, violence, lust, corruption and ceremony in which they move is formidably picturesque."-- "Times Literary Supplement"

"Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously"-Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
--Los Angeles Times "Robert Kirsch"

"The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again."--Allen J. Hubin "New York Times Book Review"
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A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world of flowers and willows that thrives on prostitution.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 April 2005
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 185 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226848736
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226848730
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 159 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.42 x 13.31 x 1.42 cm
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Judge Dee Mysteries
Best Sellers Rank: 621,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)248 in History & Criticism of Mystery & Detective Fiction
5,452 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
16,973 in Spies & Political Thrillers
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Robert van Gulik

The four academic and artistic accomplishments of a traditional Chinese scholar-official are painting, poetry or calligraphy, weiqi (the game of go in Japan), and qin (musicologically closest to zither but culturally to lute), and these are the lifelong pursuits of Robert van Gulik (1910–1967) who, at the time of his death, was the Dutch ambassador to Japan and Korea. Yet, he was different from these literati; unlike them, RvG did not mind getting his hands dirty. He loved framing Chinese pictorial art and mounting calligraphy scrolls. In his younger days, the staging of Javanese shadow plays (wayang) brought him great joy. In Malaya, he teamed up with a Chinese printer to produce the first books from his New Judge Dee Mysteries series. He raised gibbons, and he was an avid collector of objects regardless of their price or condition: he collected them for their historical, cultural, or scientific value.

While still in grammar school, an enterprising young RvG made an all-important connection with the newly retired Professor C.C. Uhlenbeck, the pre-eminent linguist at the time. Professor Uhlenbeck taught him Sanskrit and Russian and conferred him co-authorship of two language reference works on English and Blackfoot, a tribe of North American Algonquian Indians. Professor Uhlenbeck also taught him grammar structures of languages. Throughout his life, RvG used his facility in learning languages for academic studies and as entrances to different cultures.

Many Judge Dee stories appeared as comic strips in Dutch and Scandinavian newspapers, drawn by a draftsman whom he had trained. He loved movies. If he had lived longer, undoubtedly he would have had his Judge Dee mysteries adapted as screenplays and made into movies.

RvG had a great capacity for friendship. In his Judge Dee mysteries, Judge Dee’s deep feelings towards his assistants Hoong Liang and Chiao Tai are movingly described. He sustained his correspondence with Professor Uhlenbeck until his death in 1951. He always acted in the best interest of the Chinese people and the Chinese culture. When The Chinese Maze Murders was first published, the Japanese publisher insisted on a Chinese nude woman on its cover. RvG balked at this request until he learned that China did indeed have an erotic art tradition. He stipulated with his book publishers a clause to have the final approval on the design of the book covers so that Chinese representations would not be distorted.

The best characterization of RvG may be in In Memoriam where Father Roggendorf wrote, “He was an uomo universale, a veritable polymath, such as one would look for in the ages of the Renaissance or the Baroque rather than in our drab century.”