This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal 'crossover' hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.

About the Author
Stephen Teo is Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Senior Research Associate of the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474400084
Author Stephen Teo
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 424g