The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

About the author(s):

Wei Jiang, Eric (姜巍) is currently studying in the Department of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a full time PhD student. He is interested in the multitude of detective fictions translated into China during the late Qing and the Republican period (1890s-1940s). Centering on Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976), an autodidactic popular writer active in the Republican period who created Huo Sang, the Chinese equivalent of Sherlock Holmes, his current project seeks to delineate Cheng’s theorization of detective fiction and his dialog with Western modernity through his voluminous writings and translational activities.

Corresponding authors:

Wei Jiang, Eric, jiang_wei.eric@link.cuhk.edu.hk