A study of the Chinese martial arts film focusing on the wuxia (martial chivalry) genre from its beginnings in the Shanghai cinema of the late 1920s to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004).
Part I: History and Development: 1. Introduction; 2. Wuxia from Literature to Cinema; 3. Reactions against the Wuxia Genre; 4. The Wuxio Genre Shifts Ground; 5. The Rise of Kung Fu, from Wong Fei-hung to Bruce Lee; Part II: The New School and Beyond: 6. The Rise of New School Wuxia; 7. The Wuxia Films of King Hu; 8. A Touch of Zen and the Moral Dilemma of the Female Knight-Errant; 9. Wuxio after A Touch of Zen; 10. Wuxia between Nationalism and Transnationalism; Glossary; Filmography; Works Cited.
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