Western Literature Translations and Their Impact on the Development of the Detective Genre in China in Early 20th Century
Journal: Vestnik NSU Series History and Philology
Year: 2020

The article is devoted to the study of the impact of Western literature translations on the development of the detective genre in China. Active introduction of China to the Western tradition in the late 19th – early 20th century led to the emergence of a large amount of translated literature. Writers of the first half of the 20th century were innovators, they borrowed in many respects from the form of Western detective stories, which was a rather natural phenomenon considering the necessity to a