Wisely Series

Wesley Series
see list of novels
AuthorNi Kuang
Original title
衛斯理系列
CountryHong Kong
LanguageChinese
GenreAdventure fiction, detective fiction, science fiction
Published1963–2004
Media typePrint
Wisely Series
Traditional Chinese衛斯理系列
Simplified Chinese卫斯理系列
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWèisīlǐ Xìliè
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWai⁶si¹lei5 Hai⁶-lit⁶

The Wisely Series is a series of Chinese-language 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).