Oster, Judith, xvi

patriotism, 11, 46, 47, 50, 84, 130, 250

Peng, Ruijin, 206–208

Peng Xiaoyan, 207

Ping Lu, 39, 282n63

popular culture, 5, 29, 45

American, 63, 85

urban, Chinese, 111, 113, 117

rebellion, as a form of, 118, 119

and nationalism, 119

money oriented

revolutionary

global

post-1970s writers, 134, 134, 139, 140, 141, 147, 149, 161, 173

Private Life (Siren Shenghuo),, 166

Qiao Yigang, 292n107

Qiu Kuifen (Chiu Kuei-fen), 191, 201, 207

Rabine, Leslie W., 73

reader-response theory, 4, 12, 13

Reincarnation of the Golden Lotus, The. See Li Bihua.

representational inevitability, 5, 11, 15–22

Eurocentric (Orientalist), 17, 18

canon, control of, 18

masculinist, 19–22

Woman Warrior, the,, 56–58, 59, 61, 66, 67, 71, 77, 78, 92, 108

Rojas, Carlos, xviii

Rouge (Yanzhi kou),, 265

Russo, Ann, 278n5

Said, Edward W., 17

Schweickart, Patrocinio, 10, 12, 13

Searle, Leroy, 279n19

Second Exploration into Hong Kong Literature,, 242

Sexuality, xii

criticisms on female, 172, 173, 174

commercial culture and female, 172, 176

ethnicity (race) and female, 26–28

female, xiii, 7, 8, 27, 34, 70, 97, 98, 113, 120–127, 175

media and female, 135, 138, 176, 181

nationalist discourses and female, 160–163, 164, 176, 183, 196, 199, 201

literary representation of female, 164–166, 202, 217

heterosexism (heterosexuality), 19, 28, 29, 169

homosexuality, 28, 29, 130, 169, 170, 220, 253

popular culture and, 5, 29

Shang, Wei, xvii

Shanghai Baby (Shanghai baobei). See Wei Hui.

Shao Yanjun, xix

Shao Yuming, 37

Shen Haobo, 150, 151

Shi Jianwei, 299n34

Shi Shu, 295n37

Shi Shuqing, 243, 273

Shohat, Ella, 281, 282

Skandera-Trombley, Laura E., 80, 283n1

Smith, Sidonie, 72, 73, 90

South-coming Authors, 239–41

Stam, Robert, 281, 282

strong women and weak men (yinsheng yangshuai),, 155

Su, Tong, 154

Sunrise,, 125