new writers of, 56–58

promotion of vernacular prose during, 33, 47–51

view of martial arts genre, xi

Mei Chaofeng, 183–185, 189, 279, 297

Mei Fanggu, 104–105, 297

Mencius, 224

Meng Yue, 190, 199

Metamorphosis, 183–186

Miao Ruolan, 194, 297

Min Rou, 103, 104

Min Zihua, 167

Minford, John, 149–153, 175, 203, 208, 209, 213, 217

Ming Pao,, 77, 78, 81, 89–93, 98, 297

minzu guojia, See nationality and nation

minzu xingshi, See national forms

Motianya, See Cloudscraper Crag

Mo yu’er, 232

modern vernacular literature, 47

modernity, Chinese literaryand Jin Yong, 5–8, 191–192, 9, 41, 191, 193, 291

Moretti on, 192

Western, xiii, 17, 19, 182, 191, 192

Monaco, James, 283, 286

More, Sir Thomas, 165

Moretti, Franco, 192, 200

Morris, William, 165

Mount Liang, 157–160, 165, 176n.8

Mountain Tai Union, 160

Mu Guiying, 127

Mu Nianci, 87, 297

Mu Shiying, 207

Mu Ying, 145, 146

Murong Bo, 137

Murong Fu, 137, 195

Murong Yan, 273, 277, 280, 282

narcissism, 170, 171, 178, 268

nation, xiii, 5, 9–13, 17, 33, 41, 151, 173, 195, 244–246

national forms, 50, 297

national language, 33, 44, 47, 48, 52, 295, 297

nationalism, xii, 4, 193, 196

Hanin Jin Yong’s novels, 130, 139, 216, 12–17, 133–139

nationality and nation, 33, 123, 297

nation-state, 17, 122–135, 140–147, 151, 160

native literary tradition, 4–9, 15, 24–29, 34, 35

native (soil) traditional literature, 15, 25, 28, 29, 293

neo-impressionism, 5

New Evening Post, 77

new literary tradition, 4, 7, 15, 34

new literature movement, 5, 42

new martial arts novels, 9, 182

new vernacular, 5, 33–36, 49, 50–52

New Youth, 49

newspapers, Dongnanya zhoukan,, 78

Ming Pao,, 77, 78, 81, 89–93, 98, 297

New Evening Post,, 77

Xianggang shangbao,, 88, 299

Xianggang wanbao,, 78

Xin wanbao,, 86, 300

Xinwen bao,, 86, 300

Zhongguo qingnian bao,, 262, 301

Ng Ho, 156, 164, 175–177

Ni Kuang, 80, 87, 93–98, 118, 219, 261, 297

Nobel Prize, 3, 21

Nonini, Donald, 208, 218, 314

nostalgia, 18, 171

Jin Yong and, 180, 194, 229

Kondo on, 180