Mo Yan and Lu Xun (continued)

“Talk about the Old Fellow Faulkner” [Shuoshuo Fukena zhege laotou], 15

“Three Things about Eating” [Chishi sanpian], 246n168

“To Transcend Hometown” [Chaoyue guxiang], 10, 78, 80, 244n150

“To Write as an Ordinary Person” [Zuowei laobaixing xiezuo], 167, 200, 250n224

Ng, Kenny, 196

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 25, 76

nostalgiaSee also hometown; Northeast Gaomi Township, 6, 20, 39, 73–80, 83–86, 92, 97–98, 100, 103, 107–109, 111–112, 222

Oe, Kenzaburo, 199–200

one-child policySee also family planning, 192, 198–199

Orwell, George 1984, 197

Animal Farm, 61, 119, 197

Other, 61, 78, 86, 89, 136, 160, 206

OthersOthers, 89, 89, 116–117, 134

Otherness, 86, 89

People’s Commune, 10, 64–65, 161, 163–164

People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 12–14, 27, 82, 94, 126, 136, 251n243

playful, 45, 62, 67, 116, 160, 166, 214, 220, 223

playfulness, 19, 21, 59, 67, 70, 72, 147, 167, 189, 214, 225

Pu Songling, 8

Strange Stories from the Leisure Studio[Liaozhai zhiyi], 233n10

revolutionary literatureSee also communist literature; socialist literature, 6, 27, 32, 39, 122, 128, 130, 137, 178

root-seeking [xungen], 16, 73, 74–76

satire, 6, 21, 90, 150, 179–181, 183, 185, 194, 197–198, 216, 219–220, 222

Schorer, Mark, 226

Shen Congwen, 76, 79, 81, 108, 115–116, 189

Shi Zhecun, 142

socialist literatureSee also communist literature; revolutionary literature, 116, 122, 130

socialist realism, 202–203

Sun Lung-kee, 71, 207, 225

Tie Ning

Big Bathers [Da yunü], 204

tragic, 59, 62, 67, 134, 152, 166, 213

tragicomedy, 59, 213–214

tragicomic, 62

velvet prison, 224–229

violence, 6, 20, 37, 115–126, 128, 130, 133–136, 139, 142–143, 147–149, 154, 158, 167–169, 171, 174, 177–178, 183, 204, 222–223, 229

voyeurism, 136

vulgarity, 21, 181, 201, 203–204, 206