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Allan Cho

The Hong Kong Wuxia Movie

Identity and Politics, 1966-1976

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In examining the production and reception of the wuxia movie in Hong Kong during the 1960s and 1970s, this book argues that the popularity of the genre was more than just entertainment value. Its warm reception by audiences not only in Hong Kong, but in large parts of the Chinese diaspora, was because the wuxia pian - known as the martial arts movie to the West - had belonged to a long historical literary and political culture that traces back to China''s imperial past. Far from a novelty, the wuxia pian was a modernized visual medium with themes and characters that were already familiar to people who read and watched plays, oper… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-8383-3278-9
  • EAN: 9783838332789
  • Produktnummer: 37834298
  • Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 60 S.
  • Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.4 cm 107 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 107

Über den Autor


Allan Cho is an academic librarian at the University of British Columbia Library''s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. He completed his Master of Arts degree in History at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Modern Chinese history.

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