* GermansLoveDavidhasselhoff: The book series is relatively well-known in France, to the point where a French author Frédéric Lenormand made a number of sequels (though like most of his works, they lean more the comedic than strictly historical detective fiction).
* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: While some critics have dismissed Van Gulik's stories as [[{{Orientalism}} Orientalist]], they were popular enough with Chinese audiences to invigorate interest in the HistoricalDomainCharacter of Judge Dee, and with Chinese-American audiences to inspire at least one FanSequel written by a Chinese American.
* ValuesResonance: Van Gulik adapted the ''The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee'' because it was structured much like the Western idea of a crime novel: the criminal is not known from the start, and the judge must work out the details instead of having everything revealed to him by a god. While the book does have supernatural elements to it (the judge has a dream that shows which direction to look in, and he stages a ScoobyDooHoax to get a confession), these are downplayed compared to other such stories.
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