The Influence of Western Detective Fiction on the Formation of Modern Chinese Detective Fiction

Ning Zhang; Guxiuli Zheng

doi:10.2991/978-2-38476-222-4_56

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The Influence of Western Detective Fiction on the Formation of Modern Chinese Detective Fiction

Take The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries and The Hawthorne Mysteries for examples

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Ning Zhang¹^{, *}, Guxiuli Zheng²

¹Faculty of Arts and Literature, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China

²Faculty of Literature and Law, Hangzhou Normal University Qianjiang College, Hangzhou, 310018, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: zhang0726@ldy.edu.rs

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Ning Zhang

Available Online 26 March 2024.

DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-222-4_56 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: detective fiction; fairness and justice; language styles
Abstract: At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People’s Republic of China, detective novels originated in Britain and America became increasingly popular in modern Chinese society. Moreover, Chinese intellectuals did not stop at simply translating their creations but made characteristic localized creations based on imitation and borrowing. Among them, Cheng Xiaoqing created the influential Hawthorne Mysteries. Therefore, while exploring how Western detective novels were formed and spread to China, this paper n and demonstrates the influence of Western detective novels on modern Chinese detective novels in terms of language style and characterization as well as the relationship between modern Chinese detective novels and the culture of legal system and fairness and justice in Western detective novels by comparing the part of the classic contents of Sherlock Holmes and Hawthorne’s Detective Case. The study shows that modern Chinese detective novels have learned and imitated to a certain extent the language style and views on fairness and justice of Western detective novels, combined with their own national conditions, and made some innovations. However, overall, the development of Western detective fiction in modern Chinese detective fiction is limited and contemporary.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2023)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 26 March 2024
ISBN: 10.2991/978-2-38476-222-4_56
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-222-4_56 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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