absurd, 13, 59, 61–62, 67, 121, 133, 177, 179–181, 199, 217–218, 226

absurdity, 49, 60, 66, 68, 106, 128, 133, 179–180, 185, 197, 203, 210, 212–213, 225

Armstrong, Nancy, and Leonard Tennenhouse, 116–117

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 56, 205, 208, 212, 217, 251, 253n261

Bakhtinian, 59, 152, 206, 253n261

Barmé, Geremie, 224–225

Barthes, Roland, 122

Bloom, Edward A., and Lillian D. Bloom, 219, 255n291

Bo Yang, 225

Brooks, Peter, 47–48, 59

Can Xue, 181, 214, 254n276

cannibalism, 21, 38, 69, 132–133, 141, 158, 180–185, 187–188, 190–191, 194–195, 197, 200–201

cannibalistic, 65, 131–133, 183–185, 192, 194, 201

Cervantes, Miguel deSee also Don Quixote, 65

Chan Yin-ha, 251n244, 253n261

Chen Sihe, 181

Cheng Depei, 244n151

chi ren(eating people), 27, 184, 193, 214

Chineseness, 3, 46, 74, 228

Chong, Key Ray, 182–183

Chow Tse-tsung

The May 4th Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China, 231n1

Choy, Howard Y. F., 31, 130

Clark, John R., 182, 185, 194, 206, 212, 214

comic, 20, 60, 67, 72, 106, 213

comical, 61, 66, 188

communist literatureSee also revolutionary literature; socialist literature, 180

Confucius, 8

Cultural Revolution, Great Proletarian, 2, 11–12, 18, 27, 32, 59, 62, 65, 68, 74, 104, 115, 167, 183, 189, 194, 203–204, 210, 214, 229, 231n2, 236n49, 240n106, 241n108, 251n243, 253n266

Dai Jinhua, 241n115

Deng Xiaoping, 120, 216

Ding Ling, 14, 116, 124, 126, 128, 133, 135, 238n83

Don QuixoteSee also Cervantes, Miguel de, 61, 64–66

Duke, Michael S., 86, 91, 119, 134–136

family planningSee also one-child policy, 199, 201

Faulkner, William, 5, 15, 79, 108, 178, 232n6