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Xin xiaoshuo cong
Editors - Huang Enxu · LSL (Lin Ziqiu)
Date of Publication
Frist issue avaliable
Date of Publication
Last issue avaliable
1907/11
1908/5
Price for each issue : 35 cents (yinyuan piao?)
Pubisher
Xin xiaoshuo congshe
Annotation

This short-lived monthly was one of the earliest to feature crime as a genre, using a format not uncommon in Victorian magazines such as The Strand, publisher of the Sherlock Holmes stories, centred on crime fiction, satire and ‘interesting facts’ from around the world. Most of its crime stories were probably translated from English middlebrow fiction, with one prominent narrative pattern being to have a first-person narrator unveil the crime scene.

Xin xiaoshuo cong also featured historical fiction and several articles by Khoo Seok Wan (1874-1941), later a prominent cultural figure in Singapore.

Location CUHK Digital Repository - Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection
Contributors Khoo Seok Wan · Wang Xingru · Li Yingpu · Lin Wencong · Guo Ruoheng

During the ‘fiction craze’ in Late Qing, many periodicals featured serialised fiction and translated fiction. Xin xiaoshuo cong was no different from its Shanghai contemporaries. (Image from CUHK Digital Repository - Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection)