Table of Contents
Foreword
The Tree within the Forest: The Wonderful Culture of Rivers and Lakes
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jin Yong and Martial Arts Fiction
Chapter One: Jin Yong and Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
(Liu Zaifu)
Chapter Two: The Language of Jin Yong’s Writing: A New Direction in the Development of Modern Chinese
(Li Tuo)
Chapter Three: Transcending “High” and “Low” Distinctions in Literature:
The Success of Jin Yong and the Future of Martial Arts Novels
(Chen Pingyuan)
Chapter Four: ‘Rewriting’ Jin Yong’s Novels into the Canon: A Consideration of Jin Yong Novels as Serialized Fiction
(Li Yijian)
Chapter Five: The Labyrinth of Identity: Jin Yong’s Song of the Swordsman
(John Christopher Hamm)
Chapter Six: Nation-State, Individual Identity, and Historical Memory: Conflicts between Han and Non-Han Peoples in Jin Yong’s Novels
(Weijie Song)
Chapter Seven: Space, Swordsmen, and Utopia: The Dualistic Imagination in Jin Yong’s Narratives
(Weijie Song)
Chapter Eight: Gender Politics in Jin Yong’s Martial Art Novels
(Jianmei Liu)
Chapter Nine: Translating Jin Yong: The Context, the Translator, and the Texts
(Shuang Shen)
Chapter Ten: The Ship in a Bottle: The Construction of an Imaginary China in Jin Yong’s Fiction
(Xiaofei Tian)
Chapter Eleven: Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Picture Manuals
(Carlos Rojas)
Chapter Twelve: Reconfiguring Jianghu on Screen
(Ping Fu)
Afterword: Several Important Issues Regarding the Jin Yong Phenomenon
(Liu Zaifu)
Select Glossary of Chinese Characters
Jin Yong’s Works of Martial Arts Fiction
Bibliography
Contributors
Index