Name/fame (ming?), identity. From the early assassin narratives down to the modernist experiments with martial arts narrative conventions from Lu Xun and Yu Hua we read in the last week, many of the stories we have read this semester foreground questions of how someone is known or remembered, and how their actions and choices lead to their being remembered versus forgotten, or remembered in some particular way. A related set of questions relates to what we call identity, which usually places more emphasis on
the subjective experience of what it means to be someone.