A review by annewithabook
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) by

5.0

I cannot praise this book enough. Not only does Van Gulik’s translation capture many of common tropes in classic Chinese novels, but the characters within this book are fascinating and the mysteries are baffling. Judge Dee is perhaps a perfect Chinese version of Sherlock Holmes, or vice-versa, since Dee is Holmes’s predecessor. I have never read a Chinese detective novel before, and know I kind of want to learn to read Chinese characters just in order to read more of these.

Full review on my blog: https://madamewriterblog.com/2019/01/16/book-review-the-celebrated-cases-of-judge-dee-translated-by-robert-van-gulik/