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Index Adiós a la Bohemia (Farewell to the bohemian life; Baroja y Nessi), 213 Adorno,Theodor W.: on art, 13, 136, 140, 159, 241n.32; on the culture industry, 130–131; on despair and redemption, 219; on enlightenment, 192; on “hating tradition properly,” 7–8; on the limits of subjectivity, 33; “overconformity,” 186 Ai Xia, 97 Analects (Lun yu; Confucius), 172, 173 Analysis of Graphs and Explication of Characters (Shuowen jiezi; Xu Shen), 46 Anderson, Marston: on “culture” in Lu Xun’s work, 133; on “facetiousness” in Old Tales Retold, 186–187, 202; on incongruous “epiphanies” in Lu Xun’s works, 260n.90; on Lu Xun’s attitude to writing, 8; on Lu Xun’s persona as writer, 25; on Lu Xun’s portrayal of Zhuangzi, 212–213; on Lu Xun’s “psychological issues,” 216; on Lu Xun’s self-identification with heroes, 209; on Lu Xun’s use of allegory, 184; on melodrama in Lu Xun’s stories, 259n.59; on “Mending Heaven,” 203, 205, 271n.48; on slide incident, 30 “Ascending the Tower to Gaze at the Waters” (Deng lou wang shui; Gu Kuang), 143 autobiography, as genre, 47, 64–65, 225 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 169, 182, 187, 194 Bao Zheng (Judge), 214, 273n.91 “Bao Ren An shu” (Letter to Ren An; Sima Qian), 46, 58, 248n.71 Baroja y Nessi, Pío, 213 Beijing Opera, 105 Beijing Women’s Normal University, 100, 108 Benjamin, Andrew, 186 Benjamin, Walter: on hope, 55, 219, 232; image of Angel of History, 241n.27; modernist views of history and, 9–10, 35, 174; notion of allegory, 186 Bergson, Henri, 203 Bhabha, Homi K., 3 Bian Sui, 172 Bing Xin, 256n.77 Biographies of Outstanding Men (Lieshi zhuan), 173 biography: conventions of traditional, 62, 63–65, 66, 69; desecration of, 222; Lu Xun’s parodies of, 59, 73–77, 175–188 “Biography of Bo Yi” (Bo Yi liezhuan; Sima Qian), 171, 185 Blanchot, Maurice, 182, 186 Bloom, Harold, 39 Bo Yi, 171–172, 175–186, 190 “Bo Yi liezhuan” (Biography of Bo Yi; Sima Qian), 171, 185 Book of Odes (Shi jing), 142, 173, 175, 181, 190, 267n.39 Book of Rites (Li ji), 173 Book of the Shang (Shang shu), 173 Boym, Svetlana, 147, 149, 159 Bronfen, Elizabeth, 229 Brooks, Peter, 220–221 Buddhism, 192, 197, 214, 229 Bunch of Love Letters, A (Qingshu yi shu; Zhang Yiping), 256n.77 Butler, Judith, 33 Cai Yuanpei, 255n.63 caizi jiaren (scholar-beauty) stories, 112, 129, 134–136, 260n.84 Call to Arms (Nahan): crisis of representation in, 11, 21–29, 55, 215; motivations for writing, 24–25, 28, 203, 245n.18; scholarly criticism of, 5; symbol of snake in, 228. See also under short stories (Lu Xun) Cao Cao, 217–218 Cao E, 95–97, 101, 254n.40 Cao Xueqin, 135 carnival: Bakhtin and, 182, 194; spirit in Lu Xun’s works, 182, 194–195 304 Index Caruth, Cathy, 29 Chan, Stephen, 90 Chen Boping, 32 Chen Fan, 255n.68 Chen Pingyuan, 273n.90 Chen Shuyu, 256n.77 Chen Xiefen, 255n.68 Chenbao fukan (journal), 269n.91 Cheng Fangwu, 202 Chiang Kai-shek, 184 children’s literature (tonghua), 192 China: “cannibalistic” history, 5, 9, 19, 41–42, 184; entry into modern world, 4–5, 35–36, 149; Japanese occupation of, 189; Revolution of 1911, 24, 65–66. See also individual dynasties Chinese Communist Party, 3, 253n.10 Chou, Eva Shan: on ending of “My Old Home,” 160–161; on “Excursions in the Year 1911,” 152–153, 160, 264n.85; on “inaccuracies” in Lu Xun’s biographical essays, 250n.27; on Lu Xun’s antiquarian interests, 40; on Lu Xun’s early writings, 244n.11; on Lu Xun’s portrayal of Liu Hezhen, 100–101; on “Madman’s Diary,” 44; on “Q,” 252n.66 Chow, Rey, 93 Chu ci (Elegies of Chu), 117, 249n.18 Chuangzao she (Creation Society), 188 Chunqiu zuozhuan (Spring and Autumn Annals), 38 Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan hai jing), 192, 195, 199 classical Chinese language, Lu Xun’s use of, 40, 42–43, 217, 224, 227 classical literature: influence on Lu Xun, 5–6, 40–41, 45, 151, 173, 244n.14; Lu Xun’s education in, 195, 196; Lu Xun’s works in style of, 113, 152, 217, 224, 227, 265n.9, 268n.73; New Culture movement and, 3, 209–210, 211–212; peasant figures in, 150–151, 152, 158; role of imitation in, 117; solitary boat symbol in, 261n.12; theme of abandoned woman in...

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