Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wuxia from literature to cinema -- Reactions against the Wuxia genre -- The rise of Kung Fu, from Wong Fei-hung to Bruce Lee -- The rise of New School Wuxia -- The Wuxia films of King Hu -- Wuxia after A touch of Zen -- Wuxia between nationalism and transnationalism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wuxia from literature to cinema -- Reactions against the Wuxia genre -- The rise of Kung Fu, from Wong Fei-hung to Bruce Lee -- The rise of New School Wuxia -- The Wuxia films of King Hu -- Wuxia after A touch of Zen -- Wuxia between nationalism and transnationalism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Wolf's Substitute Family in Chinese TV Series: Social Realism and Wuxia Fantasy --…”
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Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Jet Li as Chinese wuxia hero -- pt. II. Jet Li as transnational kung fu star.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Kungfu Musings on the Philosophical background of Chinese Martial Arts -- Cross-cultural Communication of Chinese Wushu in an Omnimedia Context: Problems and Solutions -- The Mythology of Chinese Martial Arts Tourism : A Case study of the Shaolin Temple on Multiple Dimensions -- Translating Chinese martial arts for a global audience: A multimodal perspective -- A Survey of English Translations of Jin Yongs Wuxia Fiction and Relevant Research.-Translation of Chinese Martial Arts: Principles and Methods -- Translating Shendiao Yingxiong Zhuan: A Dialogue between Two Translators -- Neural machine translation systems and Chinese martial arts movies: Moving into uncharted territory -- When Chinese Martial Artists Meet Western Heroes: A Stylometric Comparison of Translated Wuxia Fiction and Western Heroic Literature. .…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Judge Bao in fiction -- ch. 7. The role of Wuxia (Chinese knights-errant/martial heroes) -- ch. 8. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Speeding towards autonomy : gender, wuxia, and the politics of post-coloniality in Hong Kong -- 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ang Lee: a history -- Ang Lee as director: his position in Asian and world cinema -- Confucian values and cultural displacement in Pushing hands -- Transgressing boundaries of gender and culture in The wedding banquet -- Globalization and cultural identity in Eat drink man woman -- Opposition and resolution in sense and sensibility -- Fragmentary narratives/fragmented identities in The ice storm -- Race, gender, class, and social identity in Ride with the devil -- Wuxia narrative and transnational Chinese identity in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon -- The ultimate outsider: Hulk -- Transcending gender in Brokeback Mountain -- Eroticism and performance in Lust/Caution -- Memory, narrative, and transformation in Taking Woodstock -- Storytelling and truth in Life of Pi: a spiritual journey -- Conclusion: the dream of cinema.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
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