R.H. van Gulik, (1910-1967) studied Law and Oriental Languages at
the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht, and in 1935 took his
doctor's degree with honours on a thesis dealing with the horse
cult in India, Tibet, and the Far East. Having entered the
Netherlands Foreign Service in that same year, he held posts in
Tokyo, Chunking (Nanking), Washington, New Delhi, Beirut, and Kuala
Lumpur. His last posting was as Netherlands ambassador in Japan.
Dr. van Gulik, who, after his thesis, continued to make valuable
contributions to Sanskrit and Far Eastern studies, is also
well-known as the author of the series of detective stories about
Judge Dee.
Paul R. Goldin is Associate Professor of Chinese Thought at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rituals of the Way:
The Philosophy of Xunzi (Open Court, 1999), and The Culture of Sex
in Ancient China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2002). He is also a
co-editor of the Reader of Traditional Chinese Culture (University
of Hawai'i Press).
"...brilliant and unexpectedly enlightening…" – Donald Holzman, in:
T'oung Pao
"...brings many precious and thorough statements on social,
cultural and sexual habits of Ancient China…" – T. Pokora and J.
Mellan, in: Archiv Orientální
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