Brownmiller, Susan, 91, 92

The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu),, 181, 192–195, 294n25

The Butterfly’s Shriek (Hudie de jianjiao),, 137

Cai, Yani, 220

canon, xvi, 6, 7, 107

Chinese American literature, 67, 68

formation, 12, 18, 51, 52

gender and, 12, 66, 67, 172, 195

nationalism and, xviii, 151, 152

popular fiction and, 253

race and, 66, 67, 77

tokenism, 18, 19, 68, 69

Woman Warrior, The, canonization of,, 66, 69–71, 78, 80

Cao, Changqing, 280n33

Cao, Huimin, 299n32,, 299n34

Cao, Yu, 125

Chan, Charlie, 66, 70

Chan Ching-kiu Stephen, 235, 236, 251, 254, 257, 259

Chan, Jeffery Paul, 61–63, 69, 77, 88, 90, 92

Che, Li, 289n63

Chen, Bingliang, 243

Chen, Cun, 148

Chen, Fangming, 206, 208

Chen, Kaige, 234

Chen, K.K. Leonard, 236, 297n1

Chen, Lifen, 246, 247, 252

Chen, Ran, 165–167, 169, 171

Chen, Sihe, xix

Chen, Wenqian, 179, 182–84, 186–189

Chen, Xiaoming, 174

Chen, Yanxia, 235, 254, 255

Chen, Yizhi, 295n44

Chen, Yuling, 194

Chen, Zhongshi, 154

Cheng, Wenchao, 303

Cheung, King-kok, 75, 76, 90

Chi, Li, 127

Birth of Morning Sun, the [Zhaoyang chushi],, 127

Coming and Going, [Lailai wangwang],, 127

Lipstick, the [Kouhong],, 127

Chi, Pang-yuan, 303

Chien, Su-ch’eng, 303

Chin, Frank, 39, 62–66, 73, 75, 77–79, 81, 82, 87, 88, 90–92

China Men,, xv, 58

Chinese America, xvi, 4, 45, 55, 56, 69

Chinese Americanness, 38, 39, 68

discourse of model minority, 68

female body, 66

history, 67

tradition, 67, 68

Chinese American literature, 38, 39, 62, 69, 81

Chinese Exclusion Act, 67, 68

Chinese literature, xiii, xiv, 2, 6, 21, 35, 37, 39, 73, 110, 124–128, 151–155, 206, 208, 242, 245, 250, 253

Chinese(ness), xiii, xiv, 2, 7, 16, 35–46

Chinese America in, 45

diaspora (overseas), 35, 37–39, 41

Eurocentric, 40, 42–44

feminism and, xiii

global, xvi, xix–xix, 3, 4, 35–46

history, 35, 36

language (Mandarin), 40, 41

Sinocentric, 38–40, 42