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Wuxia (武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ],
literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a
genre of
Chinese fiction concerning the
adventures of
martial artists in
ancient China...
- Look up
wuxia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wuxia is a
genre of
Chinese fiction about martial heroes.
Wuxia or Wu Xia or variation, may also refer...
- and gunfights. Sub-genres of
martial arts
films include kung fu films,
wuxia,
karate films, and
martial arts
action comedy films,
while related genres...
- list of
organisations featured in
works of
wuxia fiction. The
organisations are
classified under the
wuxia novels in
which they
appear in.
Legend of the...
- actor,
based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is
known for
directing various wuxia films in the 1960s and 1970s,
which brought Hong Kong and
Taiwanese cinema...
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films containing martial arts. The
wuxia film is the
oldest genre in
Chinese cinema.
Stephen Teo
wrote in his book on
Wuxia that
there is no
satisfactory English...
- from the 1970s onwards. The
first Hong Kong
action films favoured the
wuxia style,
emphasizing mysticism and swordplay, but this
trend was politically...
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Chinese alchemy,
other traditional elements of
Chinese culture, and the
wuxia genre.
Protagonists are
often cultivators of
immortality and supernatural...
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Martial arts play a
prominent role in the
literature genre known as
wuxia. This type of
fiction is
based on
Chinese concepts of chivalry, a separate...
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produce both
wuxia and kung fu films. The kung fu
genre was born in Hong Kong as a
backlash against the
supernatural tropes of
wuxia. The
wuxia of the period...
