Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Detective Stories
"Van Gulik's fiction can..be regarded as a hybrid of Western and Chinese crime writing traditions. This article examines the hybridity of van Gulik's texts from a perspective of narrative structure and narrative conventions of the genre; that is, how van Gulik brings together the Chinese and Western crime fiction traditions to create new forms and meanings. This hybridization occurs on two levels: retelling the story and modifying novelistic features."