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Necklace and Calabash

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849023
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Necklace and Calabash

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 166763240X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Dee's fishing vacation plans are suddenly shattered when the inn cashier is found slain in a river. When he is summoned to the Emperor's palace to find the princess's stolen pearl necklace, he wonders: could the theft be connected to the cashier's death? And what of Master Gourd and the sinister Lang Liu? Only the master detective of ancient China can come to grips with the tangled mystery of Necklace and Calabash.

Necklace and Calabash

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Necklace and Calabash

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586028773
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496215
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik written by J.K. Van Dover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor's behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik's influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.

The Spice Necklace

Author : Ann Vanderhoof
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547488432
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Spice Necklace written by Ann Vanderhoof and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes offers “a mouthwatering slice of Caribbean culture” in this blend of travel memoir and cookbook (New York Post). While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills of the Dominican Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing-hot pepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate-tasting test at the University of the West Indies, and sip moonshine straight out of hidden back-country stills. Along the way, they are befriended by a collection of unforgettable island characters: Dwight, the skin-diving fisherman who always brings them something from his catch and critiques their efforts to cook it; Greta, who harvests sea moss on St. Lucia and turns it into potent Island-Viagra; sweet-hand Pat, who dispenses hugs and impromptu dance lessons along with cooking tips in her Port of Spain kitchen. Back in her galley, Ann practices making curry like a Trini, dog sauce like a Martiniquais, and coo-coo like a Carriacouan. And for those who want to take these adventures into their own kitchens, she pulls 71 delicious recipes from the stories she tells, which she places at the end of the relevant chapters. The Spice Necklace is a wonderful escape into a life filled with sunshine (and hurricanes), delicious food, irreplaceable company, and island traditions.

Poets and Murder

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848761
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Poets and Murder written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.

Poets and Murder

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684125602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Poets and Murder written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chinese Nail Murders

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848631
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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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.

Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya

Author : Bilinda Straight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209370
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya written by Bilinda Straight and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, "this side" and inia bata, "that side." Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. Written mostly in the field, Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. Here, child prophets recount their travels to heaven and back. Others report transformations between persons and inanimate objects. Spirit turns into action and back again. The miraculous is interwoven with the mundane as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes these fantastic movements inside the cultural logic that makes them possible; thus she calls into question how we experience, how we feel, and how anthropologists and their readers can best engage with the improbable. In her detailed and precise accounts, Straight writes beyond traditional ethnography, exploring the limits of science and her own limits as a human being, to convey the significance of her time with the Samburu as they recount their fantastic yet authentic experiences in the physical and metaphysical spaces of their culture.

Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Author : J. Lorand Matory
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205948
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Empire That Is No More written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, he has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Nigeria, and the United States. Dr. Matory is also the author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Princeton University Press). He is currently researching a book on the history and experience of Nigerians, Trinidadians, Ethiopians, black Indians, Louisiana Creoles and other ethnic groups that make up black North American society. It focuses on the creative coexistence of these groups at the United States' leading "historically Black university"—Howard University

Trinidad Noir

Author : Robert Antoni
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750603
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Trinidad Noir written by Robert Antoni and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of noir fiction. Features brand-new stories by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Keith Jardim, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Tiphanie Yanique, and more. Praise for Trinidad Noir “The volumes in Akashic’s locale-based noir anthology series set outside North America (Dublin Noir, etc.) offer more variety than those set in different major U.S. cities, and this one is no exception. The editors’ brief but insightful introduction makes clear that the sun and sea tourist image of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is at odds with the country’s political climate of excess and corruption and an element of society afloat in drugs and guns . . . . The two standouts are Keith Jardim’s mystical “The Jaguar” and Lawrence Scott’s “Prophet,” in which a series of child disappearances in a small but corrupt community builds to an appropriately bleak ending.” —Publishers Weekly

The Chinese Lake Murders

Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060751401
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Lake Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.

A Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History ...

Author : Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History ... written by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Necklace of Springbok Ears

Author : Helize van Vuuren
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689893
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Necklace of Springbok Ears written by Helize van Vuuren and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Where once there were twenty-nine San Bushman languages (and/or dialects) in Southern Africa...few now remain.The loss of these languages results in the loss of their stored oral culture and indigenous knowledge. All that remains are archaeological evidence and rock art, or archives recorded by individuals, such as Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and GR von Wielligh, who heard the encroaching language and cultural death knell before it was too late.?

The Lacquer Screen

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848679
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book The Lacquer Screen written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate. "One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-—New York Times Book Review "Even Judge Dee is baffled by Robert van Gulik's new mysteries in The Lacquer Screen. Disguised as a petty crook, he spends a couple of precarious days in the headquarters of the underworld, hobnobbing with the robber king. Dee's lively thieving friends furnish some vital clues to this strange and fascinating jigsaw."-—The Spectator "So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-—New York Times Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373541
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.