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"Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu's newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the grand capital of Chang'an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: 'A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!' Minutes after the ominous warning appears, Judge Dee is approached by an emissary of Internal Minister Wu, Empress Wu's nephew. Minister Wu wants Judge Dee to investigate a high-profile murder supposedly committed by the well-known poetess and courtesan, Xuanji, who locals believe is possessed by the spirit of a black fox. Why is Minister Wu interested in Xuanji? Despite Xuanji confessing to the murder, is there more to the case than first appears? With the mysterious warning and a fierce power struggle playing out at the imperial court, Judge Dee knows he must tread carefully..."--Publisher.… (más)
Judge Dee is called upon by Emperoress Wu to unofficially investigate the incarceration and upcoming execution of renowned poetess Xuanji. This is indeed a time when the phrase, “Off with her head!” Is no mean threat. Talk about down the rabbit hole for Dee! A lively return to one of my favorite historical Chinese detectives, the Honorable Judge Dee, “Dee Renjie, the newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor of the Tang Empire.” Of course things are not simple. Powerful people are paying close attention to this case and it looks like Dee is being sandwiched in the middle. A fan of Robert van Gulik‘s Judge Dee tales, I found Qiu Xiaolon’s contribution (author of Inspector Chen works) well worth the read. …And Xuanji’s poetry! Brilliant!
A Severn House ARC via NetGalley Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change ( )
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'At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.'
- Aristotle
'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
- William Shakespeare
'Life is like a dream - I pour out a chalice of wine To the moon in the river.'
- Su Shi
Dedicatoria
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In Memory of Wang Yuanlu
This antique Huizhou writing brush of scarlet skunk tail came from Wang Yuanlu. A visiting scholar of the classical Chinese, too obsessed with the image of the brush tip softened on her moist tongue in Li Shangyin's lines to pound on the unfeeling computer keyboard, he went back to China, asking me to keep the ineffable touch of a Tang Dynasty brush - 'for inspiration . . . '
Primeras palabras
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'Honorable Judge Dee . . .'
Dee Renjie, the newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor of the Tang Empire, put down the routine report that had been submitted to him earlier in the day, stroking his white-streaked beard and shaking his head reflectively, as if at someone sitting opposite him across the rough, unpainted wooden table in the room of a dilapidated hostel.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Inspector Chen awakes wondering if it is he who dreamed of being a butterfly, or if it is a butterfly that dreams of being Robert van Gulik, the manuscript still smelling of the fresh and fragrant ink from a fox-tail brush pen on the desk. (Postscript)
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Without opening the booklet, a passage at the end of the Diamond Sutra came flashing back to mind like the fly, and he started weeping, all of a sudden, like a young sentimental man again.
'All appearances of causalities in this world, therefore, are to be seen like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, or a flash of lightening.'
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Please do NOT confuse with the Judge Dee series by Robert van Gulick, or its spinoffs.
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"Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu's newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the grand capital of Chang'an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: 'A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!' Minutes after the ominous warning appears, Judge Dee is approached by an emissary of Internal Minister Wu, Empress Wu's nephew. Minister Wu wants Judge Dee to investigate a high-profile murder supposedly committed by the well-known poetess and courtesan, Xuanji, who locals believe is possessed by the spirit of a black fox. Why is Minister Wu interested in Xuanji? Despite Xuanji confessing to the murder, is there more to the case than first appears? With the mysterious warning and a fierce power struggle playing out at the imperial court, Judge Dee knows he must tread carefully..."--Publisher.
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Judge Dee is called upon by Emperoress Wu to unofficially investigate the incarceration and upcoming execution of renowned poetess Xuanji.
This is indeed a time when the phrase, “Off with her head!” Is no mean threat. Talk about down the rabbit hole for Dee!
A lively return to one of my favorite historical Chinese detectives, the Honorable Judge Dee, “Dee Renjie, the newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor of the Tang Empire.”
Of course things are not simple. Powerful people are paying close attention to this case and it looks like Dee is being sandwiched in the middle.
A fan of Robert van Gulik‘s Judge Dee tales, I found Qiu Xiaolon’s contribution (author of Inspector Chen works) well worth the read.
…And Xuanji’s poetry! Brilliant!
A Severn House ARC via NetGalley
Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change (