Although the first Chinese-language Martial Art ... School of Martial Arts Fiction were popular because of its “local flavor-use of Cantonese slang” and praising local heroes. The success of films ...
The life story of Ip Man, the first person to teach the Chinese ... short when old rivals from his past catch up to him, forcing him to take up his sword once again. A martial arts expert sworn ...
From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan to Academy Award winners, the Chinese martial arts film scene has produced a wide array of all-time classics. If Drunken Master made Chan’s name as a lead actor ...
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 ...