num_pages: 175
description: A.D. 668A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
language: English
title: The Red Pavilion
titlecomplete: The Red Pavilion
characters: Tao Kwang, The Crab, Feng Dai, Tao Pan-te, Autumn Moon, Wen Yuan, The Shrimp, Ma Joong, Jade Ring, Lee Lien, Miss Ling, Kia Yu-po, Lo Kwan-choong, Judge Dee, Silver Fairy, Lee Wei-djing
genres: Historical, Asian Literature, Crime, Mystery, Asia, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Detective, China
ratings_count: 1312
places: China
series: Judge Dee (Chronological order), Judge Dee 
publisher: University of Chicago Press