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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06988-6 — The Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06988-6 — The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction Pingyuan Chen , Translated by Victor Peterson , In collaboration with Michel Hockx Index More Information 249 Index academics, 8 , 80 , 99 , 125 , 129 , 131 Biographies of Assassins , 107 acupuncture points, 122 “blood lust”, 153 , 154 , 155 , 157 , 194 , 236 ancestors, 4 , 11 , 95 , 113 , 147 , 241 Book Burning, Miscellaneous Stories , 108 Ancient and Modern Novels , 55 , 97 , 133 Book of Han , 12 , 13 , 42 , 48 – 9 , 139 , 140 , ancient assassins, 41 , see also assassins 161 , 162 , 166 – 7 , 197 – 8 ancient authors, 118 Book of History Biographies of Youxia , 197 army, 27 , 65 , 70 , 71 , 109 , 111 , 169 – 70 , Book of Later Han , 10 195 , 218 books ; A Brief History of the Chinese Novel , arrows, 119 , 238 34 , 59 , 223 ; Book Burning ; Miscellaneous artistic creativity, 79 , 87 , 225 Stories , 108 ; Book of Han , 12 , 13 , 42 , assassins, 40 – 1 , 107 – 8 , 114 , 171 48 – 9 , 139 , 140 , 161 , 162 , 166 – 7 , 197 – Assorted Poems from the Year of Jihai , 8 ; Book of History Biographies of Youxia , 17 , 135 197 ; Book of Later Han , 10 ; Broadsword attitudes, 24 – 5 , 51 , 85 , 86 , 101 , Wang Wu , 132 ; Changes in the History of 172 , 173 , 178 , 216 , 217 ; carefree, the Chinese Novel , 59 ; Chronicle of a Good 129 , 222 ; changing social, 176 ; Spouse , 77 ; Complete Story of the Flying critical, 85 , 237 ; healthy mental, 152 ; Dragon , 70 ; Complete Tales of Loyalty , humble, 197 ; of unrestrained 172 ; Complete Tales of Yue Fei , 71 ; arrogance, 218 ; psychological, 14 ; Continuing Lesser Five Heroes , 60 , 110 , respectful, 166 ; special, 101 , 216 112 ; Continuing Lesser Five Xiake , 64 ; authors, 85 , 241 ; ancient, 118 ; modern, Crouching Tiger ; Hidden Dragon , 88 , 206 ; 103 , 132 Don Quixote , 199 ; Double Red Stories , 29 , 31 ; Draft History of the Chinese Novel , Bai Yu, 105 59 ; Five Worms , 9 , 25 , 28 , 106 , 152 , 173 , Bai Yutang, 100 , 122 , 210 195 ; Flying Away for the Pheasant , 218 ; Ban Gu, 9 , 10 , 11 , 13 , 37 , 161 , 162 , General Li’s Old Sword , 113 ; Handan 166 , 170 Chronicles , 31 ; Happy Heroes ; Golden Bao Aluan, 146 Wo r l d , 176 ; Heroes of this Mortal World , Bao Longtu, 60 83 ; Historian’s Record , 10 ; History of Bao Qingtian, 59 Chinese Scientii c Technology , 47 ; Hong Bao Zhao, 26 , 45 , 112 , 198 , 218 Xian Girl , 56 ; Hot- Blooded Swordsmen ; Bao Zi’an, 72 Cold- Hearted Swords , 80 , 90 , 99 , 105 , Before the Storm , 156 123 , 125 , 127 , 128 , 208 , 209 – 10 ; biographies, 7 , 9 – 10 , 12 , 42, 159 , 161 , Introduction to Hot- Blooded Swordsmen ; 166 , 167 , 237 , 239 ; Biography of Cold- Hearted Swords , 80 , 90 , 99 , 105 , Assassins , 107 ; Biography of Ji Bu , 217 ; 123 , 125 , 127 , 128 , 208 , 209 – 10 ; Iron Biography of Luan Bu , 217 ; Biography Knight ; Silver Vase , 88 ; Lan Can Huangfu of the Assassins , 107 , 114 ; Biography of Mei’s Rope Skills from Jiaxing , 41 ; the Youxia , 12 ; Biography of Usurers , 12 ; Legends of Male and Female Heroes , 81 ; Biography of Xiake , 216 ; Biography of Lesser Five Heroes , 60 – 1 , 64 , 74 , 76 , 81 , Xie Xiao’e , 163 ; Biography of Youxia , 10 , 110 – 11 , 120 , 136 , 138 , 174 ; Lesser Five 24 , 197 Xiake , 64 ; Little Crane Shocks Kunlun , 249 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06988-6 — The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction Pingyuan Chen , Translated by Victor Peterson , In collaboration with Michel Hockx Index More Information 250 250 Index 88 , 102 – 3 , 122 , 145 – 6 , 175 , 192 , 204 , Water Margin , 62 ; The Red Horse with 207 , 220 ; Magnii cent Era in the Capital , the Purple Mane , 20 , 198 ; The Return of 65 ; Manual of Sword Exorcism , 205 ; Mao the Condor Heroes , 88 ; The Smiling Proud Sheng , 220 ; Ming History , 10 ; Mistaken Xiake , 90 , 113 , 114 – 15 , 124 , 176 , 187 , Execution of Cuo Ning , 62 ; Monk Tales , 207 , 211 , 213 – 14 , 221 – 2 ; The Sound 83 ; Morphology of Fairytales , 231 ; Nanke of Music from Distant Mountains , 154 , Chronicles , 30 ; New Tales of Male and 156 ; The Sword and the Gold Hairpin , Female Heroes , 79 ; Old Book of Tang , 88 , 102 – 3 , 135 , 154 , 205 ; Three Talks , 218 ; Old Man of Lanling , 115 ; Old Times 62 ; Three Xiake Five Heroes , 28 , 60 , 63 , in Wulin , 65 ; Preface Stating the Aims ; 64 , 66 , 76 – 7 , 79 – 80 , 81 , 191 , 204 ; Two Literary Mind and Dragon Carving , 233 ; Slaps , 62 ; Xiake Monk , 44 , 97 , 119 ; Preface to Tales of Heroes and the Heroic , Xiayi Romance , 77 ; Zhao Taizu Escorts 131 , 132 , 138 , 173 ; Purple Hairpin Jingniang 1000 Miles Home , 68 , 75 , 169 Chronicle , 3 , 32 , 56 , 199 ; Reading the bows and arrows, 119 , 238 Calligraphy of the Fifth Genius , 171 – 2 ; Boxer Rebellion, 152 Record of Ancient and Modern Swords , boxing, 70 , 175 110 ; Record of Mengliang , 65 ; Record of Brief History of the Chinese Wuxia Novel , 34 , Revenge through Book and Sword , 179 ; 59 , 223 Record of Travels when Old and Crippled , Broadsword Wang Wu , 132 214 ; Records of Observations of the Buddhism, 47 , 52 , 91 , 96 , 97 – 8 , 146 , 147 , Eastern Han Dynasty , 121 ; Rites of the 192 , 193 , 194 Elder Dai ; The Forging of Swords , 113 ; Buddhists, 75 , 89 , 96 , 97 , 128 , 204 , 236 ; Scholar Xiake , 139 , 173 , 220 ; Selected concepts, 96 ; deeds, 97 ; doctrines, Yuan Operas , 59 ; Shadow of a Wandering 193 – 4 ; enlightenment of, 97 ; mediation, Xiake , 114 , 116 , 134 , 142 , 146 , 186 , 126 ; power, 193 ; swords, 172 187 , 206 – 7 , 219 , 221 ; Shadows of Deep bullies, 62 , 66 , 69 , 132 , 199 Dreams , 16 ; Song History , 59 ; Song bushido, 10 Sigong Stirs Up Jinhunzhang, 62 ; Bushido of China , 18 , 25 Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue , 114 ; Spring Dreams of the Fragrant Boudoir , calligraphy, 129 , 171 – 2 , 220 84 ; Sword Force ; Pearl Shine , 88 ; Tale of Cao Pi, 114 Heroic Xiayi , 24 , 59 , 131 , 132 , 138 , 173 ; Cao Zhi, 26 , 37 , 140 , 198 Tale of Prefect Nanke , 218 ; Tale of the cases, 81 , 202 , 204 ; contemptible Curly Bearded Xiake , 15 , 32 , 34 – 5 , 46 , psychiatric, 157 ; cracking of, 63 ; 51 , 54 , 56 , 97 , 155 , 168 – 9 ; Tale of Yang divided, 63 ; homicide, 62 ; legal, 127 ; of Wen Blocking the Tiger’s Path , 175 ; Tales multiple crimes, 62 of Heroic Men and Women , 65 ; Tales of Cases of Judge Longtu , 60 Outstanding Xiake of Jianghu , 95 ; Tales Cases of Judge Shi , 59 , 60 , 67 , 73 , 76 , 77 , of Red Heart Blue Blood Xiake , 15 , 148 ; 90 , 135 , 138 Tales of the Double Xiake of Jianghu , 163 ; cassocks, 96 , 97 Tales of the Sword Fighters of Jianghu , categories, 21 , 50 , 61 – 2 , 63 , 66 , 91 , 163 ; Tales to Make You Slap the Table in 94 – 5 , 107 , 108 , 224 – 5 ; “coarsely Amazement , 39 , 55 – 6 , 63 , 108 , 114 , clothed alleyway” xia, 24 ; covering 189 ; The Amazing Xiake of Jianghu , the skills of xiake are described as 163 ; The Book of the Later Han , 11 ; “sword ; hidden weapons and poisons” ; The Collected Works of Hunanyilao ; An “internal arts” and “wushu cultivation”, Analysis and Emotional Response to the 108 ; covering those of outstanding Historian’s Record , 13 ; The Female Xiake wushu ability belonging to the realm of Huangjiang , 102 – 3 , 121 , 178 ; The of ordinary “xiake”, 94 ; describing Great Thief Sends a Plum ; The Thief Xia the near utopian idealised society, 91 ; Always Does Three Sneaky Tricks , 62 ; The dividing lawsuits and verdicts into, 63 ; Legend of Heaven’s Favour and Dragon historic, 32 ; of “cavalry tales”, 66 ; of Slayer , 88 ; The Legend of the Condor “crime solving”, 61 – 2 ; of “dark arts”, Heroes , 88 , 103 – 4 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 50 ; of “extraordinary people”, 50 ; 147 , 148 , 208 , 221 ; The Legend of the of indignation venting, 21 ; of merit © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-06988-6 — The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction Pingyuan Chen , Translated by Victor Peterson , In collaboration with Michel Hockx Index More Information 251 Index 251 eulogisation, 21 ; of people whose sword Complete Story of the Flying Dragon , 70 skills approach the divine, 94 ; of “podao Complete Tales of Loyalty , 172 sword” and “stave”, 66 ; of “shuohua”, Complete Tales of Yue Fei , 71 66 ; of the factual description of the Continuing Lesser Five Heroes , 60 , 110 , 112 “world of people” and “secret societies”, Continuing Lesser Five Xiake , 64 91 ; of the world of the imperial court, conventions, 181 , 196 , 219 , 225 , 227 , 237 ; 91 ; of xiake images, 38 ; of “yigi” and genre, 225 ; literary, 225 , 227 ; normal, “miscellaneous biographical records”, 215 ; social, 139 , 220 43 ; rich landed ofi cials, 24 – 5 ; the Copper Footed Daoist, 147 violent well off who indulge in pleasures Copper Footed Monk, 102 of the l esh, 25 corrupt ofi cials, 16 , 72 , 93 , 169 , 214 cavalry, 65 , 66 – 7 , 109 courts, 90 – 1 , 93 , 139 , 151 , 173 , 179 , 184 , caves, 186 , 187 191 – 2 , 215 – 16 ; imperial, 90 , 91 , 159 , Cawelti, J.G., 157 160 ; ofi cials, 93 , 178 , 211 , 215 Central Wushu Academy, 84 craftsmen, 195 Changes in the History of the Chinese crime i ction, 58 – 9 , 60 , 61 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 96, Novel , 59 184 , 223 Chao Chongzhi, 20 crime solving, 61 – 3 , 64 Chao Gongwu, 12 crime stories, 62 Chen Jiru, 172 crimes, 25 , 39 , 50 , 141 , 151 – 2 , 166 , Chen Ming, 69 172 – 3 , 195 , 196 , 197 ; archetypical, 60 ; Chen Ruheng, 62 ideological, 195 ; multiple, 62 ; penal, 195 Chen Yidian, 107 criminals, 118 , 151 , 230 Cheng Youwen, 52
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