language ofand the male gazeon Martial Arts novelsand Ming Paoand the modern Chinese literary traditionand the native literary tradition, xii, 2, 8, 35, 44, 52, 194, 261, 57, 3, 32, 226, 4, 15, 23, 208, 243, 5–9, 24, 25, 28, 29, 66, 97, 98

Ni Kuang andand popular literatureand politics, 80, 93, 219, 261, 16, 212, 60, 244

predecessorson raceand revisionon The Smiling, Proud Wanderer,, 44, 64, 65, 122, 134, 74–76, 92–95, 169, 172

success ofand traditionand translationand Wang Shuoon Wei Xiaobaoand Yuan drama, 55, 56, 66, 74, xii, 201, 207, 19, 262, 263, 212, 213, 216, 235, 40

Jin-style vernacular, 44, 296

Jinfen shijia,, 44

Jing Kang, 88

Jinology, 16, 40, 41, 43, 97, 296

Jinshe Langjun, 89, 295

Jinshe miji, See Secret Scroll of the Golden Serpent

Jinshi baihua wen, See Jin-style vernacular

Jinsuo ji, See Golden Cangue

Jinxue, See Jinology

Jiu Mozhi, 83, 296

jiu wenxue, See old literature

jiupai wuxia, See old school wuxia

jiushi baihua, See old-style vernacular

Jiuyang zhenjing, See Authentic Classics of Nine Yang

Jiuyin baigu zhua, See White Bone Claws of Nine Yin

Jiuyin zhenjing, See Veritable Scripture of the Nine Yin

jottings, 78, 298

Journey to the West,, 42, 300

Jueqing gu, See Valley of Severed Emotion

Kang Xi, 128–131, 140–142, 296

kanpo,, 255, 296

King, Stephen, 226, 229

Knight-errant, x, xii, 1–5, 29, 39, 81, 96, 121, 128, 155, 164, 241, 296

definition of, 176, 267

novelists, 77, 79

novels, 73–79, 84–86, 90, 91

old-school, 36

Kristeva, Julia, 254

Kondo, Dorinne, 180, 199

kuaihuo lin, See Forest of Happiness

Kuihua baodian, See Precious Sunflower Scripture

laba zhou, See Twelfth Month ?Porridge

Lai, Sharon, 209, 218

Lam Ling Hon, 127, 142, 148, 151

Lao Denuo, 228, 296

Lao She, 68, 288, 296

Lau, Joseph, 213, 218

Lee Ang, ix, 1, 2

Lee, Leo Ou-fan, 119, 200, 218

Leftist literature, 30

legends, 15, 42, 45, 71, 96, 293, 308

Li Bo, 99–101, 106, 107, 110–114, 118, 234, 296

Li Boyuan, 25, 296

Li Jieren, 68, 72, 296

Li Mochou, 183–185, 188, 189, 232, 296