Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition

by Stephen Teo

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal 'crossover' hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748632867
• ISBN13: 9780748632862
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher