{"product_id":"chinese-martial-arts-cinema-9781474400084","title":"Chinese Martial Arts Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia. The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 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.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408819790167,"sku":"9781474400084","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474400084.jpg?v=1730504328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-martial-arts-cinema-9781474400084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}