Robert van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat, sinologist and writer who penned fourteen novels, two novellas and eight short stories about the ...

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" Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly and to decide impartially ." - ...

" Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdu...

When this blog embarked on its journey through the brittle pages of venerable paperback editions and pass hefty hardcover volumes with crack...