• Applies the concept of “Transculturation” in popular genre studies between the East and the West

• The first book in English scholarship that also discusses the influence of van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries to in contemporary productions of Judge Dee tales

• The author is a specialist in the studies of Chinese detective fiction. Her previous book Detecting Chinese Modernities (Brill, 2020) receives positive review by Jeffrey Kinkley (the author of Chinese Justice). Her Chinese book on Chinese detective fiction has also been well received