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The ''Wisely Series'' are a series of Chinese adventure-science fiction novels written by the Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang. The protagonist of the series is Wisely (sometimes also spelt "Wesley"). In total, there are 161 stories about Wisely recorded in 156 novels. Of these, only 150 stories in 145 novels are written by Ni Kuang; the remaining ones are written by other writers with Ni Kuang's permission. Some of these stories have been adapted into media, such as the films ''The Legend of Wisely'' (1987), ''The Cat'' (1992) and ''The Wesley's Mysterious File'' (2002), and the television series ''The New Adventures of Wisely'' (1998) and ''The 'W' Files'' (2004). ==Publishing history== Ni Kuang wrote 150 ''Wisely'' stories in the form of 145 novels, most of which have a serial number to reflect the chronological order of their year of publication. There are 11 other ''Wisely'' stories written by other writers with Ni Kuang's permission. There are a total of 161 ''Wisely'' stories in 156 novels. The first 94 stories (excluding the prequel ''Young Wisely'' with serial number 0), were first published in serial form in the Hong Kong newspaper ''Ming Pao'' from 1963–92 (with a discontinuation from 1973–78). The stories written from 1992–2004 were published in the form of printed books. According to Ni Kuang, when he decided to publish the ''Wisely Series'' as a collection in the 1970s, he discovered that ''Ming Pao'' did not retain all the copies of his previous works. Luckily for him, he encountered a reader, Wen Naijian (溫乃堅), who collected all the copies of his stories published in ''Ming Pao''. He was thus able to have his works republished and released in a multi-volume collection. He expressed his gratitude to Wen in the preface, "These books would not have been published without Mr Wen Naijian's help." In Hong Kong, books 1–80 were published by Ming Chuang Publishing Company (明窗出版社; under Media Chinese International) while books 81–131 were published by Qin+Yuan Publishing Company (勤+緣出版社). In Taiwan, the books before book 67 were initially published by Yuanjing Publishing Company (遠景出版社) and later by Storm & Stress Publishing Company (風雲時代出版社). The books after book 67 were published by Crown Publishing Company (皇冠出版社). Ni Kuang announced his decision to stop writing the ''Wisely Series'' after book 131 was published. His friend, Taiwanese writer Yeh Lee-hwa, wrote the ''Wisely Memoirs'' (衛斯理回憶錄) as an epilogue to the series, and to explain Wisely's life and clarify ambiguities in the stories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wisely Series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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