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Robert Van Gulik, one of the twentieth century’s most prominent sinologists and detective writers, has made significant contributions to the study of Chinese cultures but received inadequate scholarly appraisal until the twenty-first century. Although Van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries have been well received informally among ordinary readers and scholars, little academic attention has been devoted to Judge Dee’s trials of evil clergy due to their covert representation in Van Gulik’s narration. This paper pays attention to crimes committed by religious leaders and members of orders to reveal an implicit religion-crime relationship in Van Gulik’s works on Judge Dee with the help of Kenneth Burke’s pentadic criticism. In our analysis, we find that Van Gulik differentiates between good and evil disciples, the acts of the disciples and the beliefs of religions, and non-mainstream and orthodox religion, presenting a heterogeneous religious crime landscape. As a result, in the misdeeds of clergy and offenses against the sacred religion, a Janus-faced (two-faced) clergy crime is identified in the mysteries.

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Summary * A law review article found only 12 dubitante opinions in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. * Dubitante opinions are generally equally rare in state courts. How rare? A 2006 law review article on the subject counted just twelve dubitante opinions in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and just four references by that court to dubitante opinions of Justices themselves. The above-noted National Law Review article quotes Judge John Bush as acknowledging that he uses dubitante opinions as a means of flagging issues for the U.S. Supreme Court: \"Ive used it in these two cases where we have Supreme Court precedent that binds us to the outcome.\"