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Gong'an or crime-case fiction (Chinese: 公案小说) is a subgenre of Chinese crime fiction involving government magistrates who solve criminal cases. Gong'an fiction first appeared in the colloquial stories of the Song dynasty. Gong'an fiction developed into one of the most popular genres of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
A short story from Judge Dee at Work. Military murder at the army fortress. 1967 "He Came With the Rain" 663, Penglai: A short story from Judge Dee at Work. 1967 "The Murder on the Lotus Pond" 666, Han-yuan: A short story from Judge Dee at Work. 1967 "The Two Beggars" 668, Poo-yang: A short story from Judge Dee at Work. 1967 "The Wrong Sword ...
It was one of the first novels to merge the gong'an (court-case fiction) and the wuxia (chivalric fiction) genres. Praised for its humorous narration and vivid characterizations, the novel has enjoyed huge readership: it spawned two dozen sequels by 1924 (according to Lu Xun ) and served as the thematic model of allegedly over 100 novels in the ...
Judge Bao (or Justice Bao (包青天)) stories in literature and performing arts are some of the most popular in traditional Chinese crime fiction (gong'an fiction). All stories involve the Song dynasty minister Bao Zheng who solves, judges and sentences criminal cases.
Gong'an (crime-case) fiction and swindler stories were considered the most popular subgenres. Written in colloquial rather than literary Chinese, they nearly always featured district magistrates or judges in the higher courts. The gong'an genre was among the new types of vernacular fiction that developed from the Song to the Ming Dynasties.
"Cases of Judge Dee"), also known as Di Gong An or Dee Goong An, is an 18th-century Chinese gong'an detective novel by an anonymous author, "Buti zhuanren" (Chinese: 不题撰人). It is loosely based on the stories of Di Renjie (Wade-Giles Ti Jen-chieh), a county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. Though ...
Lou Ye's gorgeous black-and-white thriller tells a convoluted story about a romantic obsession that erupts into World War II.
The Chinese Bell Murders is a gong'an historical mystery novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty).It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.