Minford andfor traditional ethics, 211, 170

Nurhachi, 129

obsessed love, 183, 297

old literature, 25, 56, 296

old school wuxia, 36, 296

old-style vernacular, 44, 47, 49, 50, 51, 296

one hundred chapters rule, 27

Ong, Aihwa, 208, 218

ouhua guoyu, See Europeanized national language

Outlaws of the Marsh,, 42, 143, 176, 214, 298

Ouyang Feng, 273–278, 281, 282

Ozouf, Mona, 172, 178

peach blossom island, 162, 298

picture manuals, 19, 245, 249–267, 298

Pingjiang Buxiaosheng, 44, 133, 159

poisoned love, 183–186, 191, 297

poisonous femininity, 184, 186, 188, 192, 300

Precious Sunflower Scripture, 187, 296

Princess Fragrance, 124

pure literature, 16, 42, 294

putonghua, See Standard Chinese

qi, See essence

Qi Changfa, 162, 297

Qian Zhongshu, 204–208, 211, 218

Qianlong, 115, 125, 132, 135

Qin Qinnan, 87, 297

Qin Shou’ou, 44

qingchi, See obsessed love

qingdu, See poisoned love

qinghua, See love flower

Qiu Chuji, 125, 164, 298

Qiu Qianchi, 183, 185, 188, 189, 298

Qiuhaitang,, 44

Qu Qiubai, 49, 50, 298

Quan Yong, 242, 298

Realism, 15, 42, 45

Records of the Strange, 15, 42, 45, 222, 301

Red Flower Association, 124, 160, 165

Red Guard Movement, 32

Red Rose, 49

Ren Weizhang, 244

Ren Woxing, 230, 231, 298

Ren Yingying, 162, 168, 194–197, 228, 298

Resistanceto alien invasionto colonialismto modernity, 17, 41, 141, 198, 279, 125, xii, 9, 10, 291–292

politicalto Western hegemony, 168, 12

revolutionary romanticism, 43

rhymed prose, 27

Richards, I.A., 231

Ricoeur, Paul, 157, 176

Rivers and Lakes, 1–5, 11, 18, 20, 82

(anti)utopian motifs in, 156, 160, 161, 163, 170, 172

definitions ofin film, 155–174, 220, 271–276

power in, 168, 169

as social space, 164, 182, 220

swordsmen of, 130–134, 167, 172, 173

as a symbol of the human condition, 163

violence in, 162