Liu Bannong and Detective Novels ｜ Window of Suspense

When the Holmes Detective was first introduced to China in the late Qing Dynasty, because the Chinese literati did not understand the literary genre of detective novels at that time, it even regarded it as a real case of breaking the case. Essence Although with further understanding of Western culture, Chinese readers gradually realized what "detective novels" were. However, due to the inherent concept of concepts, a considerable part of China's early detective novels were adapted from cases in news reports. Liu Bannong's first detective novel "Wig" was one of them. "Wig" is based on a theft case encountered by Liu Bannong and his brother Liu Tianhua in the early years of the Republic of China. From the perspective of detective novels, the reasoning process of "Wigs" is not tight enough, and there are too many coincidence components, but in my opinion, maybe Liu Bannong's purpose of creating this novel itself is not to show the skills of detective novels, but the intention of the testimony of detective novel Borrowing a case in the drama clubs that happened in the new and old thoughts to show the world form in the early years of the Republic of China.

Different from Western writers regarded detective novels as a good method of "recreation and stuffy". In the eyes of Liu Bannong, detective novels are "popular science textbooks" with "inspiring people's wisdom as a grand wish". Establishing the image of detectives with excellent moral morality and "letting the world imitate", and at the same time attacked a variety of literary works such as social darkness. Therefore, during the two years from 1914 to 1916, Liu Bannong's detective novel creation was divided into three aspects: the classical Chinese detective novels of the "Catch Fast Pharaoh" series; translating Holmes detective novels and writing related introductions; created " The Society of Social Society Failure Failure.

The "Catching Pharaoh" series has the characteristics of public case novels and detective novels. It can be said that it is the product of the transition of ancient Chinese public case novels to modern detective novels. In this series of two novels "Dagger" and "Dan'e", Liu Bannong has shaped an outstanding observation, does not interrupt the case with subjective imagination, but attaches importance to the detective with Chinese characteristics with Chinese characteristics. ——The image of the "Pharaoh" of the Gate. It can be seen that Chinese literati borrowed Western detective novels in the early years of the Republic of China, and combined with traditional Chinese classical novels, we worked hard to create the exploration of Chinese detective novels that belong to the Chinese.

In 1916, the Chinese Book Company invited Liu Bannong as the editor -in -chief and organized a group of well -known literati to cooperate to translate the "Complete Works of the Holmes Detective Case". This set of books uses a simple classical Chinese translation, which includes 44 Holmes series novels that had been published at the time. It was the first systematic translation and introduction of detective novels in China. It has a profound impact on the development of Chinese detective novels. The National Treasure (now translated "Four Signatures"), and carefully wrote the postscript of the post and the introduction of the author Conan Dour.

In addition, Liu Bannong also created an alternative Holmes fan novel- "Holmes Failure" series, which made the famous detective Holmes in China. A funny story. Through the five works of this series, Liu Bannong allowed readers to laugh at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. "Liu Bannong Detective Novel Collection" attempts to "open the wisdom" attempts, it is worth reading of contemporary readers.

(Author Zhang Xuan focuses on research on reasoning, suspense, detective literature and television, with millions of -related works.)

【Edit: Zhang Jing】

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