@article{ART003308333},
author={PARK EUNHYE and Park Min-Ho},
title={Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2026},
number={79},
pages={385-403},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014}
TY - JOUR
AU - PARK EUNHYE
AU - Park Min-Ho
TI - Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 79
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 385
EP - 403
SN - 1738-0502
AB - The figures of the 'Youth' and the 'Detective' were imaged as modern subjects of the nation-state and presented as models of scientific and rational thinking for the formation of such subjects. However, the specific historical contexts faced by East Asian countries led authors to portray detectives not as simple, flat characters, but as three-dimensional and multifaceted figures. Consequently, the 'youth detectives' appearing in Korea, China, and Japan exhibit the rational, scientific, and empirical attitudes characteristic of detectives, while simultaneously appearing as dualistic and complex individuals who reflect the unique atmosphere and circumstances of their respective eras and societies.
The period when the creation of detective fiction flourished in East Asia was the 1920s and 30s. Authors such as Edogawa Ranpo in Japan, Lu Dan’an in China, and Chae Man-sik and Kim Nae-seong in colonial Korea introduced 'youth detective' characters with dualistic and complex personalities. For them, detective work still embodied modern ideologies based on science and reason; however, their motivations revealed elements that violated or transcended the 'interpellation' (calling) of the state. Looking at the distinctiveness of each country, these elements manifested as psychologies of boredom and anxiety in Ranpo’s works, playfulness and routinization in Lu Dan’an’s, and lethargy and self-destructive self-disintegration in the novels of Chae Man-sik and Kim Nae-seong.
KW - Modern East Asia; Detective Fiction; Young Detective; Modernity; Enlightenment;Colonialism
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
ER -
PARK EUNHYE and Park Min-Ho. (2026). Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 79, 385-403.
PARK EUNHYE and Park Min-Ho. 2026, "Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.79, pp.385-403. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE, Park Min-Ho "Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 79 pp.385-403 (2026) : 385.
PARK EUNHYE, Park Min-Ho. Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective. 2026; 79 : 385-403. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE and Park Min-Ho. "Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.79(2026) : 385-403.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE; Park Min-Ho. Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 79, 385-403. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE; Park Min-Ho. Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2026; 79 385-403. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE, Park Min-Ho. Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective. 2026; 79 : 385-403. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
PARK EUNHYE and Park Min-Ho. "Modern East Asian Detective Fiction and the Emergence of the Young Detective" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.79(2026) : 385-403.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.014
