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A Historical Review of Robert van Gulik and His Judge Dee Mysteries in Chinese World (1996-2016)
WANG Jin, MO Wan-yi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.05.003
Faculty of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR.China
Judge Dee Mysteries was written by a Dutch diplomat and orientalist Robert van Gulik, and has been translated into more than twenty languages, gaining a wide attention with the honorary title of “Oriental Sherlock Holmes” in English world. It returned to China with Chen Laiyuan and Hu Ming’s translations in 1980s, and since then there emerged various studies by Chinese scholars on Robert van Gulik and his works. This article makes a historical review of Judge Dee Mysteries in Chinese world during the past 20 years, presents problems in translating and introducing Robert van Gulik in Chinese, and proposes comments and suggestions for further translation and studies of Judge Dee Mysteries in a comparison with Chinese gong’an fictions.
Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee Mysteries, Chinese gong’an fictions, translation studies
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