夏洛克·福尔摩斯(Sherlock Holmes),是19世纪末英国小说家阿瑟·柯南·道尔笔下的一位神探。本文从读者反应理论入手,重点阐述福尔摩斯这一人物形象在中国被接受、被传播的过程。读者反应理论认为,传统文学理论在根本上忽略了读者及其阅读接受对文学研究的意义,片面地把作家、文本当做文学研究的重心。然而,作家与作品在文学史上的地 Sherlock Holmes, a detective from Arthur Conan Doyle, a British novelist in the late 1800s. This article starts with the reader reaction theory, and focuses on the process by which Holmes was accepted and disseminated in China. Readers ’reaction theory holds that the traditional literary theory basically neglects the readers and readers’ acceptance of the significance of literary research, and considers the writer and the text one-sidedly as the focus of literature research. However, writers and works in the history of literature