The Cases of Judge Li: A Chinese Detective Classic of the Late Qing (English Translation) (Judges of Dynasties: Imperial China's Legendary Court Cases) - Tapa blanda

The Cases of Judge Li (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A magistrate who would rather ride out in disguise than sit behind a desk.A province full of people who would rather he stayed there. Meet Li Chijun, known to the countryside as Bronze Mace Li: a northernofficial raised in the south, a scholar who can shoot the willow leaf at ahundred paces, and the most restless investigator in late Qing fiction. About the BookLi Chijun holds office in a province where the courts are slow, the runners arebought, and the men who commit the crimes are usually the ones sent to solvethem. So he goes out himself. Across thirty four chapters he travels the roads as a fortune teller, a pedlar, a lame beggar, a passing traveller. He sits in wine shops and listens. He walksinto temples where the monks lock the gates behind him and into inns where theinnkeeper is counting a dead man's money. There are strangled brides andswitched corpses, bandit chiefs with private armies, false Taoists, poisonedmedicine, buried witnesses and one investigation that begins with nothing but afolded garment under a dead man's pillow. Written in the last decades of the Qing, when the whole apparatus of imperialjustice was visibly failing, the book has an edge its predecessors lack. JudgeLi solves his cases, but the reader is never allowed to forget how many gounsolved. About This EditionThis complete English translation presents all thirty four chapters of thefirst collection, rendered directly from the Chinese text.Poems and closing couplets are set as verse, official titles and legalprocedure are translated into clear English, and the storyteller's formulas arekept, since they are part of how the book was meant to be read. Nothing isabridged. Themes and Legacy- Detection, disguise and undercover investigation- Corruption of clerks, runners and local officials- Bandits, secret societies and the failing Qing order- Court procedure, confession and evidence- A late flowering of the gong'an, the Chinese courtroom mystery For Readers Who LoveThe Cases of Judge Dee - The Cases of Judge Bao - Seven Heroes and FiveGallants - The Cases of Judge Shi - Classic Detective Fiction - HistoricalMystery "He does not wait for the truth to be brought to him. He goes out and finds it." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798170948499

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