On The Localization Of Cheng Xiaoqing’s Detective Novels

The Chinese modern detective novel is a product of cultural exchanges between China and Western countries, in the first half of twentieth Century after the translation has the characteristics of China’s domestic imitation works. Cheng Xiaoqing is the first person as Chinese detective novels, his creation of the basic realization of the localization of detective novels, have very important significance in the history of Chinese on detective fiction. His " Hawthorne Detective Stories " although there are traces of imitation in the form of the novel, but has a native of western detective stories, and "agree to differ".The first chapter from the ideological content, Cheng Xiaoqing change the western detective fiction narrative out of a major case law as well as the high society of the case, his detective novels reflect mostly middle and lower classes of society living in the description of the case. By describing their living conditions, criticism of judicial injustice, feudal remnants of people’s persecution by describing the social lives of young people lazy passive state pointed out the defects in the education system at the time of issue, but also on the issue of women’s survival concerns. Depth of life, social anomie appeared in issues of moral thinking, noting the rapid modernization harm on people’s thinking generated excessive materialization of modernity,-commercial spirit of reflection, and criticism. Promote democracy and the rule of law, safeguard the interests of the lower classes, the construction of social justice.The second chapter from the characters,Cheng Xiaoqing create a very successful detective image-Hawthorne, his body reflects a keen awareness of civilians, as well as the Confucian benevolence thinking, get the balance in the traditional collectivist ideology and concept of individualism in the West, is a set of advanced scientific knowledge and a strong sense of social responsibility in an excellent detective. Another Grand Jiang Nanyan also appeared on behalf of the tradition of Chinese chivalrous spirit, reflecting the true voice of the nation in the middle and lower classes of society people.The third chapter is the analysis of his detective novels from the artistic characteristics, Cheng Xiaoqing in reference to the narrative method of western detective novels of the first person, the reform and innovation in the creation of novels, inherits the outstanding achievements of native literature. Not only absorbed the traditional art forms of literature, will be "the words" The introduction of detective novels, but also through the scene with folk-flavored portrayed and how many clues settings. On the one hand changed the Western detective fiction narrative directly into the tense atmosphere of the case, making the plot twists and turns more tactful, soothing atmosphere and tension combined with the other features of a true representation of the style of the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai community enhance the sense of history of detective fiction. But also enhance the difficulty of reading the novel, more interesting. Using simple natural language, extensive use of dialect slang, vividly demonstrated the public image of the society at that time. Beautiful language with Chinese characteristics, classical literature depicts vivid images depicting beautiful in the novel, as a detective novel adds a beauty.The purpose of the creation of life, whether it is close to the local or ideological content and artistic features of the characters are based on a national spirit of" writing delivering ethics " and he did not put detective fiction as entertainment but as a tool for improving national ideology textbook. Xiaoqing after absorbing the essence of some western detective fiction, highlighting the spirit.and. values of the national literature, reflecting the localization features.