A Study On "the Detective World"

Detective story at the beginning of the birth of our country have a distinctnational identity and characteristics of the times. On one hand, Gongan novels inancient China is it’s source; on the other hand, Under the influence of Westerndetective fiction, it’s start from imitating Western detective novels. Translations ofWestern detective fiction boom has led the local detective novels of the emergenceand development and with a combination of newspaper and magazine was welcomedby readers.In the fierce competition of the major publishing houses, the Publishing Housecalled Shijie seized the opportunity and published the semi-monthly “DetectiveWorld”. However the environment of creation of detective novel is not as optimisticas imagined. Though the magazine named by “detective”, it has to published theWuxia novels also and the social novel bannered of the “detective”. But there is nodenying that there were a lot of famous writers and good works in this magazine.Writers represented by Cheng Xiaoqing and Pingjiangbuxiaosheng. Many famousworks caused a tremendous response. Even more noteworthy is there were manytheory articles in “Detective World”. The number,the depth of research and theextension of the content were beyond compare of the other magazine. And madesignificant contributions to the development of detective novels in China.This paper take the born and development of the Chinese detective novels as thestarting point, the editors,writers and the articles as focus. Strive to achieve acomprehensively store the true face of the novel magazine, exploring its value andsignificant effects and doing something to perfect the system of the study of modernChinese fiction magazines.