29 Chinese Mysteries
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29 Chinese Mysteries
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Author : Roy Bates
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-09-05
29 Chinese Mysteries written by Roy Bates and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-05 with History categories.
A fascinating book of 29 Chinese Mysteries, easy to read and easy to enjoy. Of considerable interest to anyone who has ever been to China, or is longing to go there.
China Mysteries
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Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2023-12-31
China Mysteries written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors. This work examines more than a hundred China mysteries—many describing and analyzing social and economic changes at the center of modern life in China—to provide a brief history of the genre and analyze the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries, including their attention to matters of location, social content, characterization, history, and biography. It also highlights the role of “information” acquisition as a motivation for readers and authors of popular fiction, which has become a topic of discussion in Chinese literature studies. With its timely commentary on Sino-Western relations as presented through crime fiction, China Mysteries will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese literature and culture, as well as fans of crime novels and others who are curious about the global dimensions of the genre and how it complicates our understanding of “world literature.”
Murder In Ancient China
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Author : Robert van Gulik
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-12-13
Murder In Ancient China written by Robert van Gulik and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Judge Dee—Confucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesman—was Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Gulik’s (1910–67) lasting invention. A welcome addition to the elite canon of fictional detectives, the Judge steps in to investigate homicide, theft, and treason and restores order to the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. In Murder in Ancient China’s first story, we watch as Judge Dee attempts to solve the mystery of an elderly poet murdered by moonlight in his garden pavilion; in the second, set on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Judge makes two rare mistakes—will peril result?
The Chinese Maze Murders
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Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Chinese Maze Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with China categories.
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery
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Author : Mary Ting Yi Lui
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery written by Mary Ting Yi Lui and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with History categories.
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sigel's murder was more than a notorious crime, Lui contends. It was a clear signal that attempts to maintain geographical and social boundaries between the city's Chinese male and white female populations had failed. When police discovered Sigel and Leon Ling's love letters, giving rise to the theory that Leon Ling killed his lover in a fit of jealous rage, this idea became even more embedded in the public consciousness. New Yorkers condemned the work of Chinese missions and eagerly participated in the massive national and international manhunt to locate the vanished Leon Ling. Lui explores how the narratives of racial and sexual danger that arose from the Sigel murder revealed widespread concerns about interracial social and sexual mixing during the era. She also examines how they provoked far-reaching skepticism about regulatory efforts to limit the social and physical mobility of Chinese immigrants and white working-class and middle-class women. Through her thorough re-examination of this notorious murder, Lui reveals in unprecedented detail how contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality shaped public responses to the presence of Chinese immigrants during the Chinese exclusion era.
The Chinese Orange Mystery
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Author : Ellery Queen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Chinese Orange Mystery written by Ellery Queen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
The Mystery Of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
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Author : Sylvia Wrigley
language : en
Publisher: Sylvia Wrigley
Release Date : 2014-05-25
The Mystery Of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 written by Sylvia Wrigley and has been published by Sylvia Wrigley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-25 with Transportation categories.
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur airport shortly after midnight, full of passengers flying to Beijing. Half an hour later, the greatest mystery in aviation history had begun. Though most of us will board an aircraft at some point in our lives, we know little about how they work and the procedures surrounding their operation. It is that mystery that makes the loss of MH370 so terrifying. Follow along step-by-step as Wrigley recreates the flight and its disappearance. Review the many varied theories as to how it could have happened — up to and including alien abduction. The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 also introduces a variety of related crashes and incidents, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions.
The Chinese Lake Murders
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Author : Robert van Gulik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Chinese Lake Murders written by Robert van Gulik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The Chinese Maze Murders
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Author : Robert van Gulik
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
The Chinese Maze Murders written by Robert van Gulik and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Fiction categories.
Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chinese Maze Murders represents Robert van Gulik’s first venture into writing suspense novels after the success of Dee Gong An, his translation of an anonymous Chinese detective novel from the sixteenth century.
The Chinese Nail Murders
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Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1977-11-15
The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-11-15 with Fiction categories.
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
