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>Gong'an fiction differs from the Western style tradition in several points as described by Van Gulik
>The detective is the local magistrate who is usually involved in several unrelated cases simultaneously;
>The criminal is introduced at the very beginning of the story and his crime and reasons are carefully explained, thus constituting an inverted detective story rather than a "puzzle";
>The stories have a supernatural element with ghosts telling people about their death and even accusing the criminal;
>The stories are filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, resulting in long books; and
>The novels tend to have a huge cast of characters, typically in the hundreds, all described with their relation to the various main actors in the story.

>> No.14357281

bump

>> No.14357295
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>>14356685
absolutely based

>> No.14357302

>>14356685
Sounds like Hamlet

>> No.14357305

>>14356685
Where's the essential Gong'an fiction chart?

>> No.14357309

>>14356685
This sounds like the plot of Les Miserables.

>The stories are filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, resulting in long books
Sometimes I like this convention, sometimes I don't, depending on my mood.

>> No.14357310

>>14356685
Isn't this just a courtroom story told from the perspectivce from the judge, then? Add in the supernatural and the huge casts and the philosphical asides and it's that exactly.

>> No.14357311

sounds like it was written on blogspot by a schizo who just copypastes court documents etc and it isnt supposed to be fiction

>> No.14357316

>>14357310
Where do you get the courtroom from? More like Columbo where we know the killer and watch the detective solve it

>> No.14357347

>>14356685
"The Tao is the greater whole from which all the individual elements of the Universe derive."
The Chinese don't have a notion of linear causality like in the West, but rather associative causality. They begin with the whole and work out the relation of all its elements to the whole. All events of a Chinese story take place side by side simultaneously, not one after the other as in the West.

>> No.14357359

It's not about the mystery, but the whole thing.

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>>14357316
>Columbo???? Never heard of it!