Robert Van Gulik- P

by Janwillem van de Wetering

Book Overview

Born in Holland in 1910 but raised in Java, Robert Hans van Gulik explored esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including an authentic Chinese 16th century detective novel, around which he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156947124X
• ISBN13: 9781569471241
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

One interesting character writing about another one

Van de Wetering (a Dutch) is a very interesting author of quite unique "mysteries", set in a very everyday Amsterdam and also writes interestingly about his experiences with Zen Bhuddism. Van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat (before, during and after WW II), and a scientist working on Chinese history and culture who could play old Chinese instruments and mastered calligraphy - and who wrote mysteries in an old Imperial Chinese setting. Gulik is clearly one of Van de Wetering' s "heroes" and he is very aptly portraited as an interesting person living in interesting times and doing interesting things.

Unieque life of an extraordinary thriller-writer by another!

Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat, a Sinologist -look it up! - a poet, musician, zoologist: and above all the author of the famous Judge Dee sequence of thrillers, set in T'ang China. Janwillem van de Wetering is a writer and ex-monk with a passionate interest in the East, and the ideal person to write Gulik's life - he died in 1967. Yet this book is out of print! PLEASE SOMEONE REPRINT IT SOONEST!!