feminist criticism, xi, xii, 7, 8, 14, 24, 32, 52, 93, 111, 161, 164, 253, 271, 275, 276

global/international, 47

locational, xiii, 47, 48, 52

mass media, 176

nationalism, and, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 25–35, 45, 46, 50, 56, 57, 75, 80, 81, 85, 89, 175, 178, 214

nationalist, 7, 111, 160–164, 169, 171, 172, 270

popular culture, and, 1, 2, 113

post-feminist, 78

reductive notion of, 21, 34, 35, 51, 89, 166

Third World, 31, 33

Western (Eurocentric), 21, 32, 33, 59, 61, 79, 191

feminization, 75, 85, 131, 170

femme fatale, 119–21, 125–30, 139

Fijii Shozo, 255

First Exploration into Hong Kong Literature,, 242, 244

Fish, Stanley, 4, 10, 12, 13, 15

“The Flower Season” (Huaji),, 180, 192

Friedman, Susan Stanford, 47–52

Fu Manchu, 66, 82

Ge Hongbing, 156–158

Gellner, Ernest, 280n41

gender, xi, xiv, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 26, 45, 253, 254, 276

ethnicity and, xv, 21

gender hierarchy, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 46, 60, 255, 271

feminism, in, 31, 47, 48

identities, xix

nation and, xiii, 15, 21, 34

race and, xii, 15, 32, 33

genre, 71, 80, 91, 102

genre hierarchy, 60

gender and, 73, 75, 90

market and categorization of, 91

politics of, 90

race and, 72, 90

Ghymn, Esther Mikyung, 64

Gilmartin, Christina K., 292n105

globalization, xiii, xviii, 29, 57, 111, 156

cultural, xvi, 1, 36, 118

Eurocentric, 29, 152, 153, 275

Friedman, 48

Jameson, 3

State, and the, 119, 120

the global; the local

Gu Yuanqing, 297n13,, 299n33

Guo Lianghui, 181, 292n5

gynocriticism, 52

Ha Jin, 20, 275, 280n33

Hall, Stuart, 4, 10, 13–15

Han, Dong, 147

He Chunrui, 227, 228

Hong Kong consciousness, 8, 229, 232, 236, 240, 252, 273

Hong Kong literature, xviii, xix, 229, 230, 231, 232, 238, 239, 241, 255

delineation of, 6, 8, 243, 244, 245

popular literature, 244, 245, 246, 257

studies on, xx, 41, 236, 238, 239, 241, 242, 245, 255, 256

Hong Kong Literature Festival, xviii

Hong Xu, 289n62

Hong Zhigang, 171