A New Study of Legends of Destroying Robbers

The modern novel Legends of Destroying Robbers has long been commented as the reactionary one, and hence became an alternative work in the history of Chinese novels. This is unfair. It should be said that the novel is the product of the that time. And it has reflected the soul course of some literati and officials who tried to maintain the emperor's power and keep the social stability. In aspects of figures' shaping and description of plots, it has its own achievement and can be taken as an excellent work. In this sense, it has certain value for appreciation