Download or read book Sherlock in Shanghai written by Xiaoqing Cheng and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—"the Paris of the Orient"—was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893–1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle’s highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle’s style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator—a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat’s-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng’s strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.
Download or read book Dee Goong An Three Murder Cases Solved written by and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee's celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new bride, and an unsolved murder in a small town — these crimes launch Judge Dee down the great silk routes and even into graveyards to consult the spirits of the dead. With his keen analytical wit, can he discover the killers? First of the Judge Dee books, translated by Robert van Gulik.
Download or read book Chinese Characters for Everyone written by Marie-laure Deshazer and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes receives a registered letter from his old friend Sir Henry Meyer who asks him to visit the 63 lands of Chinese characters. After locating the different Chinese characters on the map, Holmes and Watson embark on their journey to visit the characters, learn how to easily recognize, read, write and memorize them. During their journey they learn how the characters are composed along with the grammar needed to use them in sentences. With each land they visit, Holmes and Watson receive a message from their friend detective Dee. Detective Dee asks them to perform different activities to help them learn and understand the characters they just met. The tasks include reading and decoding a message, character search, short stories to remember the tones and reviewing the meaning of each character. Please join Holmes and Watson on their tour as they learn the Chinese language and the characters that are part of daily life.
Download or read book The Return of Sherlock Holmes Chinese Edition written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Chinese Junk Affair written by Roy Templeman and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short stores, with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. In The Chinese Junk Affair they are in a desperate search to find the truth about an invention which could endanger Britain and the Empire. The Tick Tock Man sees them on a walking holiday where their tranquillity is shattered by a curious death and a talking raven. Finally, in The Trophy Room, they are presented with a classic locked room mystery.
Download or read book China s Sherlock Holmes written by Pasquale J. Accardo and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes written by Sabrina Yuan Hao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.
Download or read book The Chinese Gold Murders written by Robert Hans Van Gulik and published by University Of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Chinese Will written by Marie-laure De Shazer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy mi-day October morning prosecutor Chang asked Sherlock Holmes for help. The eunuch of the Chinese emperor had been murdered in Chinatown. Before he died, the eunuch had written his will and addressed it to Sherlock Holmes. The will contains those Chinese characters that look nearly the same and are most often confused between one another. If Sherlock Holmes can decipher the will and avoid confusing the different character then he will discover the identity of the murderer. Who killed the eunuch? Why did he live in London? Help Sherlock Holmes learn about the most confused characters and help find the murderer. The method provided in this book can give you a better understanding of the differences between characters and will help you avoid confusion with these characters. The activities and exercises in each chapter are enjoyable, provide for learning through repetition and will help you discover the different characters that could have committed the murder. Who killed the eunuch of the Chinese emperor? Now you can help us find out.
Download or read book Snake Bite written by Andrew Lane and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes written by Jamyang Norbu and published by Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "lost years" Sherlock Holmes are revealed through the scroll of a Bengali scholar who traveled with the great detective in Asia. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and The Nine Dragon Sigil written by Tim Symonds and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching - not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task - discover whether such a plot exists and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war. The fate of China and the interests of Britain's vast Empire in the Orient could be at stake. Holmes and Watson take up the mission with their customary confidence – until they find they are no longer in the familiar landscapes of Edwardian England. Instead, they tumble into the Alice In Wonderland world of the Forbidden City.
Download or read book In the Company of Sherlock Holmes written by Leslie S. Klinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the follow-up to the nationally bestselling A Study in Sherlock, a stunning new volume of original stories from award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted as the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers—and writers! Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times-bestselling Mary Russell series (in which Holmes plays a co-starring role), and Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Readers will find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The resulting volume is an absolute delight for Holmes fans both new and old, with contributions from Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Dirda, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Nancy Holder, John Lescroart, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more. The game is afoot—again!
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1977-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
Download or read book Fu Manchu The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu written by Sax Rohmer and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known… Dr. Fu-Manchu. Denis Nayland Smith pursues his quarry across continents and through the back alleys of London. As victim after victim disappears at the hands of the Devil Doctor, Smith must unravel his murderous plot before it is too late. Includes a special feature by Leslie S. Kilnger
Download or read book The Taking of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.
Download or read book The Sherlock Holmes Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sherlock Holmes Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, tackles the most "elementary" of subjects--the world of Sherlock Holmes, as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes Book is packed with witty illustrations, clear graphics, and memorable quotes that make it the perfect Sherlock Holmes guide, covering every case of the world's greatest detective, from A Study in Scarlet to The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, placing the sorties in a wider context. Stories include at-a-glance flowcharts that show how Holmes reaches his conclusions through deductive reasoning, and character guides provide handy reference for readers and an invaluable resource for fans of the Sherlock Holmes films and TV series. The Sherlock Holmes Book holds a magnifying glass to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.
