英文摘要
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With the onset of the 1990s, Taiwan's mystery literary field began to experience wild swings. Though they had been the dominant force in the 1980s, Fo-er Lin and Lin Po Publishing Corporation could not escape the fate of being replaced by Hung-Tze Jan and his mystery novel series 'House of Murder Specialties'. The narrative paradigm of mystery novels had shifted from Japan to the West. With the organization of the Third Million Dollar China Times Award for Novels, the field of mystery novels had not only gradually coincided with the mainstream literary world, but had also led to conflicts over the definition of the mystery genre between the mainstream media and on-line readers. This then facilitated the organization of the Ren-Lang-Chen Mystery Award/ Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award that arose from the Internet in 2002, launching a new wave of power struggles over new rules for the mystery novel genre, as well as spawning local adaptions of the narrative paradigm of Japan's Shin-honkaku mystery novels. The main purpose of this paper, therefore, is to explore how these two major turning points over this period of just ten or more years facilitated the reconstruction of Taiwan's mystery genre, and how the new knowledge power relations had been generated under the new rules set for the field, shaping out Taiwan's mystery genre that one can see observe today.
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