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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...
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    Di Renjie (category Gong'an fiction)
    Tang dynasty". Di Renjie appears as the main character in a number of gong'an crime novels and films. The first of these was a 64-chapter novel titled...
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    Judge Dee (category Gong'an fiction)
    court. The character appeared in the 18th-century Chinese detective and gong'an crime novel Di Gong An. After Robert van Gulik came across it in an antiquarian...
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    witnesses in a court. Gong'an fiction (公案小说, literally:"case records of a public law court") is an early genre of Chinese detective fiction. Some well-known...
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  • The Red Pavilion (category Gong'an novels)
    Pavilion is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty). It is a fiction based on the...
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    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...
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  • Flame (Chinese: 狄仁傑之通天帝國) is a 2010 Chinese-Hong Kong action-adventure gong'an film directed and produced by Tsui Hark, which stars Andy Lau, Carina Lau...
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  • but mostly for the thrill of the act itself. Gong'an fiction: A subgenre of historical crime fiction that involves government magistrates who solve...
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  • violence. During the Song and Ming dynasties, crime fictions varied in themes. Gong'an (crime-case) fiction and swindler stories were considered the most popular...
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