Unique Skills Created by Shaolin Monks, 72, 161, 298

A Bi, 82, 83, 84

A Fei Zhengzhuan,, 272

A Xiu, 104, 293

A Zhu, 82, 83, 84, 141, 162, 169, 293

A Zi, 93, 293

Abandoned City,, 241, 243, 294, 310

Abbas, Ackbar, 272, 285, 286

accumulated cultural treasures, 7, 299

achieving victory and turning around, 88, 294

An Afternoon Audience with Hardy,, 46

anecdotes in miscellanies, 42, 76, 222–223, 293

anti-utopia, 18, 156, 158–161, 163, 164, 174, 176–177, 311

Aron, Raymond, 65, 72, 306

Art of the Mystic Serpent, 41

Ashes of Time,, 271–273, 276–278, 285, 308

Authentic Classics of Nine Yang, 161, 296

Ba Jin, 3, 67, 208, 288, 293

bai hui guilie, See one hundred chapters rule

Bai Yu, 51, 294

baihua, See vernacular, the

baihua wen yundong, See vernacular literature movement

Baima xiao xifeng, See White Horse Neighs in the Western Wind, A

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 158, 176

Barmé, Geremie, 208, 218

Barthes, Roland, 153, 165, 286

Baudrillard, Jean, 171

beauties and scholars, 182, 293

Beckett, Samuel, 278

Beggars’ Gang, 247, 294

Bei Haishi, 102, 105, 106, 293

bentu chuantong wenxue, See native (soil) traditional literature

Bhabha, Homi, 139, 147, 150, 151

Big Waves,, 68

biji xiaoshuo, See anecdotes in miscellanies

Bingshu xia,, 62, 293

Biography of Heroes and Beauties, The,, 182, 294

Bixue jian, See Sword Stained with Royal Blood, The

Black Iron Sigil, 101, 102, 109, 300

Bloch, Ernst, 174, 178

Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge,, 74, 98, 122, 298

jianghu in,, 160, 161, 177, 178

women in, 194, 195

Borges, Jorge Luis, 241

Boundless Bliss Gang, 102, 103, 106, 114, 293

Buddhism, ix, 9, 69, 119, 222, 228

caizi jiaren, See beauties and scholars

Calinescu, Matei, 191, 200

canonization, 75

Cao Mengde, 144

Cao Qiqiao, 190, 293

Cao Yu, 64, 293