Lu Xun and Mo Yan, 5–6, 15, 18–20, 24, 27, 43, 65, 67, 69, 71, 75–76, 79, 81–88, 90–92, 121, 128, 132–133, 141, 148, 150–151, 153, 160, 165–166, 178, 180, 184–185, 187–188, 191, 194, 197, 201, 214, 220, 222–224, 226, 228–230

works

“Forging the Swords” [Zhujian], 115

“Kong Yiji” [Kong Yiji], 121

“A Madman’s Diary” [Kuangren riji], 27, 160, 184, 201, 224

“Medicine” [Yao], 115, 132, 133, 184, 187, 194

“My Old Home” [Guxiang], 20, 83, 85, 87–88

“The New-Year Sacrifice” [Zhufu], 20, 82–83, 87–88, 90–91, 132

“Preface to the Second Collection of Short Stories in Compendium of Modern Chinese Literature” [Zhongguo xinwenxue daxixiaoshuo erji xu], 84

“Regret for the Past” [Shangshi], 43

“The True Story of Ah Q” [Ah Q zhengzhuan], 115, 150, 152

“What Happens after Nora Leaves Home” [Nola zouhou zenyang], 151

Lukács, Georg, 19, 24

Luo Guanzhong

Sanguo yanyi [Romance of the Three Kingdoms], 24

Mann, Thomas, 213

Mao Zedong, 2, 10, 18, 28, 63–64, 68, 105, 122, 125–126, 135, 202, 229, 231n2, 233n11, 234n25, 236n49, 238n83

Maoist discourse (Mao wenti)See also Li Tuo, 18, 29, 39, 58, 117, 122, 167, 178, 202, 212, 225–226, 238n83

Márquez, Gabriel García, 2, 5, 15, 74, 178

May Fourth Movement, 1, 16, 231n1

literatureliterature, 5, 5, 17–18, 79, 81, 115, 184

Mencius, 8

Mo Yan and Lu Xun. See also Lu Xun and Mo Yan

Northeast Gaomi TownshipSee also hometown; nostalgia, 15, 20, 26, 31, 36, 41, 45–46, 73, 75, 77–79, 81–82, 92, 107, 107, 110–112, 198, 208

use of color, 37–38, 66–67, 100, 103, 117, 164, 167–178, 218, 250n225

use of language, 5, 19, 29, 61–62, 70, 80, 98, 166–167, 178, 219, 219, 244n151

works (fiction)

“Abandoned Child” [Qiying], 185–186, 192, 199

Big Breasts and Wide Hips [Fengru feitun], 3, 19–20, 23–24, 44, 47–48, 50–59, 69–71, 126–127, 129–130, 133, 135–136, 193, 198, 214, 222, 225–226, 234n27, 248n207