The Detective World Of Zhao Tiaokuang

When detective novel was introduced into China, the translation of detective novel became thriving. This boom was not only related to the novel form of detective novel, but also the important manner of inspiring people which was adopted by the progressive intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty. The detective novel generally had gone through three different stages, rising, accepting and creating in its early phase since the first detective novel translation entered into China. The main features of the three stages are translation, transitivity, and innovation in learning, respectively. Around1920s, the function of detective novel in church and state was weakened, the interestingness was highlighted. It was associated with the industrial production situation and the market-oriented business way which were the effect of Chinese modernization on literature. The Chinese detective novels enjoyed its initiative prosperity, and Zhao Tiaokuang is one of the major contributors to the detective novel named A Brighting Page.The detective world built by Zhao includes the creation of detective novel and the editor of magazine named The Detective World.The detective novels written by Zhao Tiaokuang are obviously interesting. Zhao created a legendary detective named Hu Xian who isn’t afraid of failure, by using the procedural narrative structure and first-person narration to construct the suspense of novel in a funny style.Zhao is an author of detective novel, who also is a famous editor. In addition, the rise of modern newspapers promoted the identity diversity of literatus.The Detective World mainly is a common magazine which is in pursuit of commercial profits before Zhao joined this magazine. Fortunately, after Zhao joined this magazine, Zhao made the magazine pay more attention to the readers. Since Zhao joined The Detective World, the magazine had experienced great changes, the enjoyable covers, more columns, and increasing the communication channel with readers.Zhao encouraged the creation of the original detective novels, and added specified column for the theoretical research of detective novel. These method promoted the development of Chinese detective novel.Zhao considered The Detective World as the main land of his detective novel and in return the edit promoted his creation of detective novel, so the edit of Detective World and creation of detective novel promoted each other. However, neither the detective novel written by Zhao or the magazine edited by Zhao, which were enveloped in the flow of the era and were promoted by the market which is a invisible hand.