Tales of Judge Dee

Someday I'm going to teach these greedy people a lesson said Judge Dee a tall broad-shouldered man with a foot-long black beard and matching side-whiskers.<p><p> The legendary figure comes back! He continues to solve baffling cases in 7th century China but at a faster pace. <p><p> Tales of Judge Dee is Zhu Xiao Di's debut in fiction. His other books include:<I> Thirty Years in a Red House a Memoir ofChildhood and Youth in Communist China </I>(University ofMassachusetts Press 1998 paperback from the same press 1999 new edition by Penguin Books India 2000) and<I> Father: Famous Writers Celebrate the Bond between Father and Child</I>(Pocket Books 2000 contributing along with John Updike Annie Proulx Dean Koontz Calvin Trillin and others.) <p><p><I>Boston Globe</I> calls his memoir 'a splendid lesson in 20th-century Chinese history and <I>Library Journal</I> says it is 'engrossing and engaging.