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| | Judge Dee |
 | | Van Gulik's stories, however, were completely fictional in filling in the details of Judge Dee's life, cases, official positions, family, etc. They were also deliberately anachronistic in using Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) clothing, customs, and culture in describing events in the T'ang Dynasty, seven hundred years earlier. |
 | | Later stories fill in the details of Dee's career and also gravitate towards a more familiar decective story format, as Judge Dee is not always solving cases in the course of his regular adminstrative duties, operating with his full staff out of his District Tribunal and its Court. |
 | | I think that the Dover edition of the Dee Goong An is still in print, but everything else is now handled by the University of Chicago Press (from which they may be ordered on line), which has all the books out in new editions. |
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