Dee Goong An

The Dee Goong An is a 18th century Chinese detective novel, loosely based on the adventures of Judge Dee, a magistrate who lived in the seventh century during the Tang Dynasty (600–900 CE).

The novel contains cultural elements of Ming Dynasty (1300–1600 CE) rather than Tang Dynasty China, which may have been done deliberately or from ignorance about Tang era China.

The Dee Goong An was translated by Robert van Gulik into English and used as the basis for his own series of detective novels about Judge Dee after he came across it in a secondhand bookshop in Tokyo.