Duties of a Criminal Investigator -- The Struggle of Humanity: The Struggle of Humanity

Author: Feng Shirong
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Publishing Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Detective literature is beloved for its twists and suspense, captivating due to its thrilling and exhilarating nature, and enriching one's wisdom through analysis and reasoning. It also integrates legal systems, technology, and humanistic spirit, playing an important role in exposing evil and promoting justice. However, some are driven by profit, publishing inferior content that advocates for "brutality, weirdness, and pornography," corrupting the readers. This collection "Eastern Creation" takes the responsibility of "singing the main theme" and strives to achieve "legal, rational, and emotionally resonant" content, "rich in suspense and full of twists and turns" in plot, "unexpected yet logical" in creation, and "accessible yet refined" in style. In summary, they aim to make the readers appreciate this generous gift. "Eastern Sword" is a bestselling public security literature magazine, listed by the National Press and Publication Administration in the "China Journal Formation" and awarded as a "Dual-Effect Journal." It has consistently adhered to the "serving the people and the nation" and "," principles, continuously introducing a series of works with strong ideological, artistic, and readability qualities, many of which have won provincial or national awards. Zhuhai Publishing House immediately recognized its potential and collaborated with Feng Shirong and Mou Huaike to select outstanding works from recent issues of "Eastern Sword" to compile this collection. This is a highly beneficial and well-received initiative for readers and scholars of detective literature. Public security literature, in the modern sense, is closely related to ancient public case literature and modern chivalric literature, making it a timeless literary genre with historical and contemporary significance in promoting justice and punishing evil. It has always been favored by readers. Inheriting and developing public security literature, the "Eastern Sword" magazine has unique advantages. They have experienced the transition from old to new eras, seized the opportunity of China's reform and opening-up, and are situated in the international metropolis of Shanghai, living at the forefront of criminal investigations, providing an inexhaustible source for the prosperity of public security literature.
Regarding cases, they are characterized by being numerous, large-scale, risky, and challenging, especially in the late 1980s of the last century, with the rise of intelligent, transnational, and high-profile criminal cases, greatly enriching the content of detective literature.
Regarding police officers, Shanghai's criminal police inherit the traditional practicality, perseverance, cleverness, and bravery of Chinese police, while also possessing the cultural, intellectual, perspective, and moral qualities of modern police. Equipped with advanced technology, they have significantly enriched the material for detective literature.
Regarding time, Shanghai's century-old concessions, the ruling period of the Kuomintang, and the transformative era of the People's Republic have accumulated countless old cases and anecdotes. Since the reform and opening-up, new perspectives have emerged for examining old criminal cases, and previously unpublished major case archives have been released. Combined with collaboration in criminal investigations with international police forces, this has greatly expanded the scope of detective literature.
Regarding fields, through criminal investigations, they explore the vast world and analyze various aspects of human life, with works covering ethics, morality, criminal psychology, and more, profoundly deepening the of detective literature.
Regarding the environment, Shanghai is supported by many renowned writers and public security authors, and it has a profound cultural heritage, greatly intensifying the atmosphere of detective literature. All these factors have ensured that Shanghai's public security literary works possess both professional characteristics and cultural refinement.
The editors of "Eastern Sword" collection have shown great ingenuity by dividing it into four volumes: "Intelligence Showdown" (Detective Novels), "Soul Collision" (Social Ethics), "Humanity's Struggle" (Major Case Focus), and "Blood-Soaked Secrets" (Declassified Cases), making these detective works even more distinctively Chinese, contemporary, and urban. It can be said that this division is both necessary and accurate.