Duties of a Criminal Investigator -- Heart-Bleeding Secrets: Heart-Bleeding Secrets

Author: Feng Shirong
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Publishing Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Detective literature is loved for its intricate plots and suspense, captivating readers with its thrilling and adventurous nature, and enhancing wisdom through its analysis and reasoning. It also integrates the principles of law, science and technology, and the spirit of humanity, playing a significant role in exposing evil and promoting righteousness. However, some are driven by profit, publishing inferior content that promotes "brutality, novelty, and pornography," poisoning many readers. This series of "Oriental Sword" collects works with the mission of "singing the main melody," striving to ensure that the content is "legal, reasonable, and sensible," the plots are "rich in suspense and full of twists," the creation is "unexpected yet logical," and the style is "accessible to both the refined and the common, seeking elegance within simplicity." In short, they aim to make readers appreciate this generous gift.
"Oriental Sword" is a popular detective magazine in the public security genre, listed by the National Press and Publication Administration in the "China Periodical Matrix" and honored as a "Dual-Efficiency Periodical." It has always adhered to the principles of "serving the people and serving the times" and ",," continuously introducing works of high ideological, artistic, and readability standards. Many of its works have won citywide or national awards.
Zhuhai Publishing House immediately spotted its potential and collaborated with Feng Shirong and Mou Huaike to select outstanding works from recent issues of "Oriental Sword" to compile this collection. This is a highly beneficial and well-received initiative for readers and scholars interested in detective literature.
Public security literature, in its modern sense, is closely related to ancient judicial literature and modern chivalric literature. It is a enduring literary genre that holds historical and practical significance in combating evil and promoting good, and has always been favored by readers. Inheriting and developing public security literature, "Oriental Sword" magazine has unique advantages. They have experienced the transition from the old to the new, seized the opportunity of China's reform and opening-up, thrived in the international metropolis of Shanghai, and been at the forefront of criminal investigations, providing an inexhaustible source for the flourishing of public security literature.
Regarding cases, their characteristics are numerous, large-scale, perilous, and challenging. Particularly in the late 1980s of the last century, intelligent, transnational, and sensational criminal cases increased significantly, greatly enriching the content of detective literature.
Regarding police officers, Shanghai's criminal police inherit the tradition of Chinese police—pragmatic, resilient,, and brave—while also possessing the cultural, intellectual, perspective, and moral qualities of modern police, supplemented by advanced technology, further enriching the material for detective literature.
Regarding time, Shanghai's century-old concessions, the ruling of the Kuomintang Party, and the vicissitudes of the New China's era have accumulated countless historical anecdotes of criminal cases. After the reform and opening-up, new perspectives emerged to examine old cases, and previously unpublished major case archives were released. Combined with collaboration with Interpol in criminal investigations, this has greatly expanded the scope of detective literature.
Regarding domain, through criminal investigations, these works explore the vast world, analyze various aspects of human life, touching on ethics, criminal psychology, and more, profoundly deepening the of detective literature.
Regarding environment, Shanghai is supported by many renowned writers and public security authors, with a profound cultural heritage, further intensifying the atmosphere of detective literature. All these factors ensure that Shanghai's public security literary works are both professionally distinctive and culturally refined.
The editing of "Oriental Sword" collection is ingenious, dividing it into four volumes: "Wisdom at Stake" (Detective Fiction), "Collision of Souls" (Social Ethics), "Battle of Humanity" (Major Cases), and "Blood-Stained Secrets" (Deciphering Old Cases), which more prominently highlight the Chinese characteristics, contemporary traits, and urban features of these detective works. It can be said that this is both necessary and precise.