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	What is Wuxia? / The Wuxia genre / About / Wuxiapedia - The comprehensive wuxia knowledge base
		The wuxia genre is particular to Chinese culture, because it is a unique blend of the martial arts philosophy of xia (俠, "chivalry", "a chivalrous man or woman") developed down the centuries, and the country's long history in wushu.
		Although wuxia is based on true-life martial arts, the genre elevates the mastery of their crafts into fictitious levels of attainment.
		Because the wuxia genre occupies a difficult-to-define position between pure fantasy and reality, and many tales are set in clearly defined historical periods, Western audiences may have difficulty accepting the conventions of wuxia genre, dismissing them as pure improbability.
	wuxiapedia.com /about/the_wuxia_genre/what_is_wuxia (3039 words)

	Wuxia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wuxia genre is particular to Chinese culture, because it is a unique blend of the martial arts philosophy of xia (俠, "chivalry", "a chivalrous man or woman") developed down the centuries, and the country's long history in wushu.
		Nonetheless, the genre continued to be enormously popular, with certain full-length novels such as The Strange Case of Shi Gong (施公案奇闻) and The Romance of the Heroic Daughters and Sons (儿女英雄传) cited as the clearest nascent wuxia novels.
		Because the wuxia genre occupies a difficult-to-define position between pure fantasy and reality, and many tales are set in clearly defined historical periods, a substantial part of Western and other audiences may have difficulty accepting the conventions of wuxia genre, dismissing them as pure improbability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wuxia (2831 words)

	Wuxia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The wuxia genre is confined and peculiar to Chinese culture, because it is a unique blend of the martial arts philosophy of xia (俠, "chivalry", "a chivalrous man or woman") developed down the centuries, as well as the country's long history in wushu.
		Tui na is often used (especially in wuxia comedies or parodies) to reverse the effects of the point strikes.
		Wuxia film (or wuxia pian, Mo Hap film, Mo Hap Pin) (Traditional Chinese: 武俠片; Simplified Chinese: 武侠片; pinyin: wǔxiá piān) is a film genre originating in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Wuxia (1631 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Wuxia genre
		Wuxia films or Wuxia pian (武俠片 Pinyin: wǔxiá piàn) is a film genre from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
		However, the same Western audience may have trouble accepting the Wuxia type of fantasy because the Western heroes are supposed to be regular people that possess superpowers.
		The storylines of this genre are mostly about revenge on killings in the context of a lawless state of society known as Jiang Hu.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wu/Wuxia_genre (300 words)

	Wuxia Pian
		The "wuxia pian," or film of martial chivalry, is rooted in a mythical China, but it has always reinvented itself for each age.
		The wuxia plot often presents a struggle between social loyalty and personal desires, as when in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Li Mu-bai's final mission to avenge the death of his teacher prevents him from simply retiring from the Giang Hu world to live with Shu-lien.
		Central to the wuxia mythology is the sword.
	members.tripod.com /~journeyeast/wuxia_pian.html (2149 words)

	Zhang Ziyi CSC: Introduction To Wuxia Genre: Jiang Hu, Lu Lin and Wu Lin
		Zhang Ziyi CSC: Introduction To Wuxia Genre: Jiang Hu, Lu Lin and Wu Lin
		In the wuxia genre, righteous bandits who opposed local despots and protected the weak were known as dao-xia.
		In the River-lake, the elite of the Wulin are known as gao shou (lit: high hands) or huang-baofu (lit: yellow-bags), and treated with the utmost of respect and deference.
	csc.ziyi.org /filmography/cthd/wuxiafiction/jianghu.html (752 words)

	Wuxia Pian
		The next milestone in the wuxia genre occurred in the early '80s as a new generation of filmmakers schooled in Japanese and Hollywood filmmaking became the standard-bearers for Hong Kong's New Wave.
		Wuxia films of this era pushed pre-CGI effects and wire-enhanced action choreography to the extreme while experimenting with horror and fantasy elements in films like The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Butterfly Sword (1993).
		With this film's release, the wuxia pien had come full circle for Ang Lee's influences were clear, having drawn from King Hu's A Touch of Zen (1971) among other wuxia films the director recalled as a child.
	www.kungfucinema.com /categories/wuxiapien.htm (1737 words)

	MGC Review - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While a Chinese viewer steeped in the wuxia tradition would be able to distinguish one fighting discipline or philosophy from another, to the average American, it simply looked like a lot of jumping and kicking and punching and, most inexplicably, flying, all of which was accompanied by ridiculous whooshing and smacking sounds.
		It stretched the wuxia genre to places it had never gone, combining traditional story forms with a wild sense of slapstick and character humor, and it made a powerful connection with its audience.
		Wuxia doesn't have the same lowbrow connotations in China as kung fu movies do here in the U.S. The storytelling form, as I mentioned, goes back hundreds and hundreds of years, and is a highly honored tradition.
	moviegeek.homestead.com /files/crouchingtiger.htm (2730 words)

	GreenCine \| Wuxia
		Wuxia is a Mandarin-language term that literally means "martial arts chivalry" and pian simply means "movie." Wuxia itself represents a uniquely Chinese variety of storytelling that dates back long before the advent of filmmaking, at least as far as the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
		Although proven versatile enough to work in any genre, the filmmaker most closely associated with the bulk of Shaw Brothers' literary wuxia pian adaptations during the 1970s and early 1980s is Chor Yuen, the son of a famed Cantonese film actor who started working for the studio in 1971.
		His first major wuxia title was Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai nu; 1972), a masterful blend of traditional genre convention and exploitation cinema that brought the usual martial conflicts of the jiang hu into the more socially conscious realm of the brothel.
	www.greencine.com /static/primers/wuxia1.jsp (2737 words)

	The Origin of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Movie Genre and Its Influence on the American Television and Movie Industry ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wuxia Pian, as it is commonly referred to, incorporates a hero canon as well as the finely detailed choreographic actions scenes filled with high-flying kicks and supernatural feats.
		Although the wuxia tales describe their protagonist as "knight" errant, the major differences between the wuxia tales, and those of later, Western authors is the notion of aristocracy.
		Were it not for their revivalist movement of the wuxia mythology during the 1960's, and the subsequent emulation by producer, director Robert Tapert, the American audience would not have been covertly introduced to the heroic traits contained within wuxia mythology.
	www.whoosh.org /issue84/romero1.html (7284 words)

	wuxia directors
		They are in fact iconographic to the genre, and the truth of the matter is that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon has factored in its own inevitable tribute to the master.
		King Hu, specializing in wuxia pian with a historical background, emerges as one of the purest stylists, consistently polishing and expanding the same style from film to film.
		When the tragi-romantic wuxia pian genre is replaced by other trends, his films move into a dead end, and they no longer trigger the imagination of the audience.
	members.tripod.com /journeyeast/wuxia_directors.html (2574 words)

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		The Chinese Nationalists and Communists were outraged and began to label the wuxia genre as unprogressive.
		Many of the wuxia films that were made around the 1920's and 1930's were lost due to the ban.
		The wuxia genre have stepped aside to the romantic comedies that are becoming more popular amongst the Chinese teenagers.
	www.uh.edu /~hkbigley/2321/dacon/research.htm (1065 words)

	Exploring Wuxia Themes and Philosophies - News Article - Wu-Jing.org
		This is markedly different from the first wuxia movies that were released in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		The wuxia novels usually emphasised xia instead of wu, unlike the many movies they inspired, which tended to play up the swordsmanship aspect, rather than the philosophical.
		Wuxia heroes, regardless of which side they are on, display ideals.
	www.wu-jing.org /News/M03/2003-01-Wuxia-01-Themes.php (1317 words)

	Diary of a Phanatique - sci-fi, wuxia, comics and other obsessions: Interview with the Founders of Wuxiapedia (Part 1)
		Please note that the Wuxia genre we mention here only concerns the novels, not the movies or TV series, which try to be artistic and fantastic.
		Wuxia films and adaptations (although there have been far too many of the latter on TV already!) however will see many changes as wuxia film-makers improve.
		Wuxia films often try too hard to be artistic, have too many cryptic dialogues and focus too much on emotions than the actual story and the "Xia" values.
	phanatique.blogspot.com /2006/07/interview-with-founders-of-wuxiapedia.html (2038 words)

	Mew : Amongst sweltering heat... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wuxia does not necessarily equal badly written, although I'm sure there are people out there who would argue otherwise due to the plethora of, for the lack of a better word, bullswaddle that's being passed off as Wuxia these days.
		However, three of the four major Chinese literatures are technically of the Wuxia genre (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, and Water Margins).
		Most wuxia survive not just because of their physics defying moves (hell, Tenipuri gives you that much) but because they have a fundamental message to deliver regarding national interest.
	www.greatestjournal.com /~cashew/546259.html (1065 words)

	Wuxia - Chinese Movie - Chinese Art
		The wuxia genre is largely confined and peculiar to Chinese culture; even within East Asian cultures like Japan and Korea there is no equivalence with the Chinese concept of Xia (philosophy)xia (俠), or "chivalry", although the genre is also popular in Korea.
		Another strong theme in wuxia is that the powerful skills must be trained and practiced with the purity in heart.
		However, the same audience may have trouble accepting the wuxia type of fantasy because the wuxia heroes are supposed to be regular people with superpowers.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Wuxia (1502 words)

	King Hu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hu was born in Beijing, and he emigrated to Hong Kong in 1949.
		His first success, Come Drink With Me remains a classic of the wuxia genre and catapulted the then 20-year-old starlet Cheng Pei-pei to fame.
		Blending Japanese samurai film traditions with Western editing techniques and Chinese aethestic philosophy borrowed from Chinese music and operatics, Hu began the trend of a new school of wuxia swordplay films and his perpetual use of a female heroine as the central protagonist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Hu (488 words)

	Sequential Tart: Heroic Bloodshed: A Brief Introduction to Wuxia Films (vol IV/iss 4/April 2001)
		Loosely translated, Wuxia means martial adventure, chivalry, or swashbuckling and encompasses stories with a high moral tone as well as those focusing on adventure and action.
		My discussion is by no means exhaustive or authoritative as I am a newcomer to the genre, and many of these films are not easy to find outside of a city big enough to have a Chinatown, but it will get you started.
		As I said, this is not at all a comprehensive list of films or discussion of the genre, but it is a good starting point as all of these movies are good and most are pretty readily available on videotape or DVD.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/apr01/cv_0401_3.shtml (1049 words)

	GenerAsian at NYU
		Wuxia first emerged in Chinese literature, its earliest stories relating the deeds of men who were not necessarily good or bad, but people who were strong, of healthy character, and skilled in martial arts-commonly warriors who stood up against the law that protected only the few.
		Wuxia's immense popularity, extending to all groups, from young teenagers to adults, has made it an integral aspect of Chinese culture.
		Martial arts films, like the wuxia literature, are frequently characterized by heroes who must take revenge on an antagonist for some violent act done to those dear to him or to his society.
	www.nyu.edu /clubs/generasian/spring01/Reviews/Movie/wuxia_behind_the_scenes1.htm (755 words)

	The Wuxia genre / About / Wuxiapedia - The comprehensive wuxia knowledge base
		He then addresses the twentieth-century reinvention of the genre as a form of mass entertainment, and the geopolitical and ideological background of the "New School" revival of martial arts fiction in postwar Hong Kong.
		Heading this revival were the works of Jin Yong, who is widely credited with elevating the genre from the ghetto of formula fiction to new heights of literary accomplishment.
		Interwoven with analyses of the novels are explorations of Jin Yong’s newspaper and publishing empire; the effects of his rising prominence as a journalist, entrepreneur, and political and cultural spokesperson on his fiction; and how his motivations and enterprises intersected with those of readers and critics in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.
	www.wuxiapedia.com /about/the_wuxia_genre (442 words)

	do you have ever readed the book of 金庸? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		He's the one who basically invented the wuxia genre, in which people can almost fly (i.e., windwalk,) freeze opponents, and perform other amazing martial-art feats.
		He's the one who invented the wuxia genre, in which people can almost fly (i.e., windwalk,) freeze opponents, and perform other amazing martial-art feats.
		Wuxia is the ancient person in China, they have superb china kongfu, and fine morality.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=39842 (826 words)

	An Introduction to the Wuxia Genre
		The simplest way to describe this genre to those who are not familiar with it is to define it as Chinese swords and sorcery.
		However, the pioneers of the wuxia genre wrote during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and set many of the standards for modern wuxia novels.
		In it are all the elements of modern wuxia fantasy films, including special effects to simulate palm power, and the use of wire-work to simulate flying.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /eric/xia.html (5032 words)

	Wuxia genre - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums
		You just inform us of the great Chinese wuxia novels, and we decide if the translated versions are any good.
		However, it is one thing to see wuxia movies and another to see how it is done in the written word.
		Can anybody supply a list of wuxia novel, in the English language, as I need to see how the action sequences are scripted/described.
	www.chronicles-network.com /forum/3076-wuxia-genre.html (560 words)

	HongKongGenrePg3
		When the Peking Opera was established in 1790 under the Qing dynasty, wuxia tales were dramatically acted out on stage
		the philosophical and religious concepts held within the wuxia form of stories were seen as harmful for the masses.
		genre are King Hu and Zhang Che (Teo 98).
	www.charani.org /HongKongGenrePg3.html (1198 words)

	Zhang Yimou's 'House of Flying Daggers' - Associated Content
		Wuxia means “martial arts chivalry.” It emphasizes historical backgrounds, theatrical narratives and motifs, sword-wielding combatants, and the gallant demise of the hero figure.
		Yimou’s initial wuxia film was the internationally-acclaimed “Hero.” In that production, he made the most of an asymmetrical film structure that was filled with extravagant landscapes, vivid colorizations, and intricate and spectacular arrow-and-sword fight scenes.
		Following the financial and critical success of “Hero,” Yimou continued on in the wuxia genus with the 2004 release of “House of Flying Daggers.” The movie is similar to “Hero” in that it highlights martial arts and rich imagery.
	associatedcontent.com /article/2283/zhang_yimous_house_of_flying_dag... (488 words)

	Use of folk heroes, martial arts in film reflects Chinese tradition
		And as outlandish as the action seems, the human conflicts in a wuxia film are decidedly complex in their own right.
		Unlike the single-minded avenging disciples of many a kung-fu film, wuxia heroes are often caught up in conflicts not entirely their own, and they can be torn or ambivalent about whether to get involved.
		What allows wuxia to work so well as drama, then, is the inevitable fall to earth after all the flying swordplay.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1211daggers11.html (363 words)

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