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Sherlock à Shanghai : histoires de crime et détection par Cheng Xiaoqing

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Book Title: Sherlock in Shanghai : Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing

Item Length: 9.4in

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Publication Year: 2006

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 0.9in

Author: Xiaoqing Cheng

Genre: Literary Collections, Fiction

Topic: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Asian / General

Item Width: 6.3in

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Number of Pages: 232 Pages

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Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s--"the Paris of the Orient"--was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle's highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle's style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator--a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat's-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng's strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.

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Sherlock in Shanghai : Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing

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Xiaoqing Cheng

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Hardcover

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English

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Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Asian / General

Publication Year

2006

Genre

Literary Collections, Fiction

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232 Pages

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9.4in

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0.9in

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6.3in

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par 8MZjWJ5sT0S@Deleted
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A small sample of a large Chinese literature
: This is a collection of translated tales by a very popular Chinese writer of the early 20th Century. This selection of tales is, I presume, representative, but the translator makes it clear that it is only a small fraction of the work available. The characters of Huo Sang and Bao Lang will be very familiar to Sherlockians. They fit together very much like Holmes and Watson and their world is very similar to the Gaslight era of 1895. The feats of reasoning by Huo Sang leave his partner just as amazed as the good doctor until they are explained and the same air of wonder pervades Bao Lang’s recounting of his partner’s adventures. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote for the popular Chinese Press from 1915 until the Communist Revolution in 1949. Besides almost singlehandedly introducing modern ... : This is a collection of translated tales by a very popular Chinese writer of the early 20th Century. This selection of tales is, I presume, representative, but the translator makes it clear that it is only a small fraction of the work available. The characters of Huo Sang and Bao Lang will be very familiar to Sherlockians. They fit together very much like Holmes and Watson and their world is very similar to the Gaslight era of 1895. The feats of reasoning by Huo Sang leave his partner just as amazed as the good doctor until they are explained and the same air of wonder pervades Bao Lang’s recounting of his partner’s adventures. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote for the popular Chinese Press from 1915 until the Communist Revolution in 1949. Besides almost singlehandedly introducing modern detective fiction to Chinese Literature, he was a major collaborator in the translation projects that made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works available in Classical and modern vernacular Chinese along with those of Maurice Leblanc, Earl Derr Biggers, Leslie Charteris and S. S. Van Dine. Cheng’s stories were mostly centered on Huo Sang and his biographer/partner, Bao Lang. This pair were clearly a Shanghai version of Holmes and Watson with a comfortable bachelor household, a devoted housekeeper and a circle of eager policemen looking for their help. There was even an expert criminal opponent, The South-China Swallow, a master thief along the lines of Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin. In 1945, a ‘complete’ pocket book version of the Huo Sang tales was published which comprised some 30 volumes, although the murky publishing history of his efforts makes the ‘complete’ tag questionable. In addition to his writing, Cheng Xiaoquing taught at the High School attached to Soochow University for most of his life. After the Comunist take-over, the market for ‘frivolous’ fiction disappeared and his literary efforts were confined to a few adventure stories and classical-style poetry. It is most ironic that his work was in official disfavor with all three governments under which he wrote. To the Kuomintang Literary World, his work was part of the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies” literature, works of no social significance or value. True Literature was supposed to instruct the reader in ways to improve society and move it away from the superstition and errors of the past. Not surprisingly, the Japanese Occupation Government approved only pro-Japanese oriented fiction, so Cheng was forced to produce most of his work during this period under pseudonyms. Finally, under Communist rule, his work was again thought to carry no uplifting social messages and was, of course, banned. The irony of these viewpoints is that Cheng’s work was of enormous social significance in that it championed the rational approach to crime solving and to thinking in general. It was instrumental in introducing the elements of Western Thought to Chinese society in palatable form without actively advocating change. It merely made such changes seem reasonable and necessary. His villains were often corrupt officials and dishonest professionals, not traditional lower class idlers and misfits. His heroes were educated, rational people who cared about victims of oppression or cheating and who strove to improve society through leveling barriers. Reviewed by: Philip K. Jones, August 2008.

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