Studies On The Detective Novels Of Cheng Xiaoqing

The overall development of detective literature of modern China is not so good, however, it's undoubtedly that Cheng Xiaoqing is still one of the most excellent detective novelists . This is not only because he had never given up probing the theories of detective stories, but also got great achievements in writing practice. "Huo Sang's Stories", a series of novels written by Cheng Xiaoqing, represents the biggest achievement in the detective literature of this period from the themes' digging, characters' molding and art techniques' presenting.As Cheng Xiaoqing intended to take his detective novels creation as popularization of science, rich science knowledge and logical reasoning are displayed in his detective novels. With the help of his novels, Cheng Xiaoqing indeed brought science and modern spirits to the citizen society of old China. This in fact took the effect of breaking superstitions and advocating science.Cheng Xiaoqing analyzed the criminality origin from the view of "ethics". In his novels, Cheng Xiaoqing described the trend of traditional family's ethics standard and the new marriage moral criteria in the times of individual liberation. By the means of these, Cheng Xiaoqing disclosed the moral degeneration and the lost of humanity. It is material civilization that should be blamed for all of these in Cheng Xiaoqing's eyes. Considering the result, Cheng Xiaoqing put forward series of topics upon ethics, such as money and crime, desire and degeneration, system and justice and so on. Cheng Xiaoqing touched people's meditation to the problem of modernization initially, though his meditation is just on the level of concrete and perceptual ways.''Justice punishment" is another important content Cheng Xiaoqing stressed in his novels. "Justice" here is not the justice in the meaning of law but of ethics. Cheng Xiaoqing actually realized the criticism and subverting of the laws and system in that time. Showing sympathy for such "justice punishment" makes his novels overflowing humanitarianism. Cheng Xiaoqing expressed a kind of pessimistic or even a desperate mood to the existing legislation system. As his humanitarianism points to the fact of greed expansion and disorder, it is still a kind of criticism.Concerning on the art techniques, Cheng Xiaoqing's detective stories is well organized. First, the plot is complicated. Second, the correlation is natural , and the reader involvement piles up. Third, hints of the novels are ingenious. Of course, Cheng Xiaoqing's detective stories have some defects in the characters' molding, the way of narrating and the arrangement of plots. As far as the overall development level in Modem Detective Literature is concerned, Cheng Xiaoqing is still one of the most remarkable detective novelists in his area. We can conclude without any doubt that Cheng Xiaoqing deserves "the First Man of the Chinese Detective Novelists".