Celebrated cases of judge dee download youtube

As against that, making a false judgement could be far more perilous to Dee's kind of magistrate than to a modern western one. His powers are vast, and some of the things he can do would be manifestly illegal in a Western judicial system - such as grossly intimidating a witness or suspect, up to and including the extraction of a confession by torture. This case contains a surprising twist in its solution.ДЄll three cases are solved by Judge Dee, the district magistrate, detective, prosecutor, judge, and jury all wrapped up into one person. The third case, 'The Poisoned Bride', addresses the poisoning of a local scholar's daughter, who marries the son of the former administrator of the district and dies mysteriously on her wedding night. The second, 'The Strange Corpse', takes place in a small village and addresses a crime of passion which proves hard to solve.

The first might be called 'The Double Murder at Dawn' the case describes the hazardous life of the traveling silk merchant and a murder which is committed to gain wealth. The second part, of which Van Gulik so strongly disapproved, was apparently never translated - leaving western readers with no way of independently evaluating Van Gulik's scathing criticism. However, he never actually obtained a copy of that original work or a conclusive evidence that it had existed under that name. The title given, 'Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee', is what Van Gulik assumed the original work was called, before the second part was added. Moreover, Part II did not describe a detective investigation at all, but rather dealt mainly with court intrigues and power struggles - and thus did not serve Van Gulik's aim of presenting Chinese crime fiction to Western readers.ДЇor all these reasons Van Gulik decided to translate the first part only. where the relations of the Empress Wu with the priest Huai-i are described.'. Further, while Part I is written with considerable restraint, in part II there occur passages which are plain pornography, e.g.

The style of part II, on the contrary, is prolix and repetitious, the plot is clumsy and the characters badly drawn. As stated in the postscript, 'Part I is written in a fairly compact style and cleverly composed. The later 34 chapters described events at the Court (where the historical Judge Dee is known to have been a valued adviser to Empress Wu, though his career suffered various ups and downs).Д«ased on textual analysis, Van Gulik became convinced that the second part was a later addition written by 'a person of feeble talents'. The part which Van Gulik translated describes Judge Dee simultaneously solving three difficult criminal cases, culminating with his being rewarded by promotion to the Imperial court (which, Van Gulik notes, was the traditional culmination of a Chinese story about an official). There were many differences between variant texts, Van Gulik considering the 19th Century version the best and basing his translation mainly on it. Van Gulik obtained three editions of that book вЂ“ a 19th-century manuscript and two printed editions, published respectively in 1903 and in 1947 at Shanghai. 'Four great strange cases of Empress Wu's reign' ДЄs carefully noted in his scholarly postscript, the present book is in fact a translation of only about half (31 out of 65 chapters) of a Chinese book in Van Gulik's possession, entitled 'Four great strange cases of Empress Wu's reign'. The translation features nine drawings, three copies from old Chinese art, and six illustrations by the author. The translation was first privately printed on behalf of Van Gulik by the Toppan Printing Company of Tokyo, in a limited run of 1200 numbered signed copies. Possibly it would have had a wider appeal if it had been entirely re-written in a form more familiar to our readers. This novel Dee Goong An is offered here in a complete translation. This translation is chiefly a product of the Pacific War years, 1941-1945, when constant travel on various war duties made other more complicated Sinological research impossible. He then used it as the basis to create his own original Judge Dee stories over the next 20 years. The Dutch sinologist and diplomat Robert van Gulik came across a copy in a second-hand book store in Tokyo and translated the novel into English.

1.1 'Four great strange cases of Empress Wu's reign'.

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