Author: Gary D. Rawnsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135281483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film’s popularity with its audiences, discussing the factors which so resonated with those who watched the film. It examines questions such as Chinese national unity, the search for cultural identity and role models from China’s illustrious pre-communist past, and the portrayal of political and aesthetic values, and attitudes to gender, sex, love, and violence which are relatively new to China. The book demonstrates how the film, and China’s growing film industry more generally, have in fact very strong international connections, with Western as well as Chinese financing, stars recruited from the East Asian region more widely, and extensive interactions between Hollywood and Asian artists and technicians. Overall, the book provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production.
Author: Wing Shing Ma
Publisher: Dr. Master Productions Incorporated
ISBN: 9781597961905
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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One of the most intricately woven action adventure stories ever told returns, completely remastered and digitally rendered! Hero Hua is well known for his spectacular fighting and sword skills with his legendary Blood Sword. However, he leads a turbulent life, incurring the wrath of the Black Dragon Gang and other dangerous enemies, and struggles to save his friends and family from dying at their hands.
Author: Tom Rousseau
Publisher: ME PUBLISHER
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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The Chinese political system has an intrinsic attractiveness, one amplified by recent Western media's depiction of a booming China and declining West. Whether such a system is sustainable long-term, however, is very difficult to predict. Through the stories of a handful of brave individuals, this book asks whether the system created since the beginning of the opening up and reform era in the 80s has delivered, or is capable of delivering to the Chinese Citizens, two simple promises made since the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949: Justice and Freedom of Speech.
Author: Wing Shing Ma
Publisher: Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blo
ISBN: 9781597961486
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"The Three Elders begin their revolt against Taibo Jin without Fire, but not without consequences. Will Fire make it back in time to save his masters or is he too distracted romancing Qin? Jian finds Jin's whereabouts and goes to the forest after him to get his revenge for White Snake, but is unexpectedly captured by Poison Master! Back at China Tower, Hero worries about Jian and Qin who have gone missing, when he discovers a Q Level Assassin, who engages him in battle"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Jin Yong
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250220610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time! Featured in iO9's 2019 Fall Preview. Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born... in the first book in the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes by the critically acclaimed master of the genre, Jin Yong. After his father—a devoted Song patriot—is murdered by the Jin empire, Guo Jing and his mother flee to the plains of Ghengis Khan and his people for refuge. For one day he must face his mortal enemy in battle in the Garden of the Drunken Immortals. Under the tutelage of Genghis Khan and The Seven Heroes of the South, Guo Jing hones his kung fu skills. Humble, loyal and perhaps not always wise, Guo Jing faces a destiny both great and terrible. However, in a land divided—and a future largely unknown—Guo Jing must navigate love and war, honor and betrayal before he can face his own fate and become the hero he’s meant to be. Legends of the Condor Heroes A Hero Born A Bond Undone A Snake Lies Waiting A Heart Divided
Author: Mau-sang Ng
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622014299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Comprehensive study demonstrates how Chinese writers, in particular the writers of the May Fourth Movement of 1919, guided by Russian authors of the 19th century, created works of art that are both original and Chinese. Glossary of names and terms. This is the Chinese U. Press (of Hong Kong) edition of 1986. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Anne Birrell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292708792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Chinese myths were primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a piecemeal fashion. Many classical texts are unavailable in translation, and the stories have been unknown to Western readers. Anne Birrell here introduces the general reader to a selection of narratives organized by themes and motifs that help set Chinese myths in the context of world mythology. The contents include: Origin and creation myths Myths of the flood The divine cosmos Gender in myth Metamorphoses Mythic heroes and heroines Fabled plants and animals Major sources of myth
Author: Roger Crozier
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga, was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan, and established a dynasty which ruled the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. Crozier analyzes the historical Koxinga and the myths that have grown about him over time.
Author: Jachinson Chan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136711902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book is one of the first scholarly analyses of the current social constructions of Chinese American masculinities. Arguing that many of these notions are limited to stereotypes, Chan goes beyond this to present a more complex understanding of the topic. Incorporating historical references, literary analysis and sociological models to describe the construct a variety of masculine identities, Chan also examines popular novels (Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan), films (Bruce Lee), comic books (Master of Kung Fu), and literature (M. Butterfly).
Author: Kam Louie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521806213
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. Kam Louie uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. This revises most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book also looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China.
