Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes

Dr Sabrina Yuan Hao is Assistant Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China and Research Fellow at China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney. She has published on comparative literature, popular culture and historical crime fiction.

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• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Anglophone Crime Fiction and Diversified Ethnicity2 Global Crime Fiction3 Orientalism, Hybridity, and Globalisation1 A Man of Three Lives: Life, Scholarship and Judge Dee Fiction1 Sources of Biographical Information2 Early Years and Education3 Diplomatic Career4 A Man of Letters and Scholarship5 Judge Dee as Biographical Writing: Diplomacy, Scholarship, and Fiction2 Gong’an Literature: A Literary Tradition1 Gong’an Literature in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (960–1368)2 Gong’an in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)3 Gong’an in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)4 Narrative Pattern: Story Recycling3 Globalising Judge Dee: Halved Translation and Hybridised Narrative1 Van Gulik’s Adaptation: Translation and Creation4 The Globalised Judge Dee: Hybridised Representation of Gender and Sexuality1 Gendering Crime Fiction: The Classic and the Hard-Boiled2 Representing the Male: Hybridised Detective Hero and Authorial Identification3 Representing the Female: Hybridised Eroticism4 The Combined Male Gaze: Scopophilic, Voyeuristic, and Sadistic5 Localising the Global: Judge Dee Returns Home and the Chinese Translations1 Introducing Western Detective Fiction: The First Tidal Wave2 Translating Western Detective Fiction: The Second Tidal Wave and the Translation of Van Gulik’s Judge Dee Series3 Localised Rewriting: The Influence of Ideologies4 Localised Rewriting: The Dominant and the Personalised PoeticsConclusionBibliographyIndex