Thus, after the war, van Gulik sought first of all to bring its existence to the notice of both Eastern and Western audiences and he hoped to inspire Chinese and Japanese writers to revive the tradition, rather than just imitate or translate Western detective stories. Many people even in China and Japan, however, were also unaware of the literature, since it was no longer being produced. In the course of his research, and then while working at diplomatic posts in Japan and China before and during World War II, van Gulik had gotten interested in the long tradition of Chinese detective and crime literature, the existence of which most Westerners were and probably are unaware. I did not realize until two or three years later, when I started finding Judge Dee books in Austin, that the TV movie was based on The Haunted Monastery, one of many Judge Dee stories by the Dutch diplomat and scholar, Robert van Gulik (1910-1967). The series was called Khan, but it moved Khigh Dhiegh from the T'ang Dynasty to the present. This starred Khigh Dhiegh in the title role and was intended as the pilot for a TV series. The first I ever heard of Judge Dee ( ) was from a TV movie I saw when I was living in Hawaii in 1974, Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders.