Chinese Hero

Author : Gary D. Rawnsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135281483
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Chinese Cinema written by Gary D. Rawnsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9781597961905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Hero written by Wing Shing Ma and published by Dr. Master Productions Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mau-sang Ng
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068805
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction written by Mau-sang Ng and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian influence took root in the Chinese intellectual tradition that evolved after the Literary Revolution of 1917. When the Chinese communists turned to Russia for their inspiration they also accepted the Russian version of the novel's form and function in society. However, they did not accept it uncritically. Chinese understanding of the arts goes back for thousands of years and thus Chinese intellectuals brought their own kinds of tradition and intelligence to these new arts and political solutions. In this lucid study, the author demonstrates how Chinese writers, guided by Russian authors such as Chekhov, Turgenev, and Andreyev, created works of art that are both original and Chinese. However, he also shows that the familiar heroes of such famous novelists as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Mao Dun, and Ba Jin have a strong Russian flavor linked to prototypes in the Russian literary tradition. The author depicts the fortune of Soviet literature and the fate of the intellectual hero in the People's Republic of China. He believes that the humanistic May Fourth intellectual tradition, which inspired enthusiasm for classical Russian literature, has been revived with the publication of works like Dai Houying's Man ah, Man! and Zhao Zhenkai's Waves.

Author : Jin Yong
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250220610
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hero Born written by Jin Yong and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wing Shing Ma
Publisher : Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blo
ISBN 13 : 9781597961486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Hero Volume 7 written by Wing Shing Ma and published by Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blo. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Ralph C. Croizier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism written by Ralph C. Croizier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Ralph C. Croizier --History, Myth, and Nationalism /Ralph C. Croizier --In Search of the Historical Koxinga /Ralph C. Croizier --Myth, Model and Archetype in the Traditional Chinese Hero /Ralph C. Croizier --The Nationalist Transfiguration /Ralph C. Croizier --His Disputed Legacy in a Divided China /Ralph C. Croizier --History and the Hero /Ralph C. Croizier --Notes /Ralph C. Croizier --Bibliography /Ralph C. Croizier --Index /Ralph C. Croizier --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Ralph C. Croizier.

Author : Perry Lam
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9881500516
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once A Hero written by Perry Lam and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself. He examines successes and failures of its famous auteurs; spotlights talented newcomers; and, with the future of Hong Kong cinema now bound up with the mainland, discusses the works of major Chinese filmmakers.

Author : King-Kok Cheung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137441771
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese American Literature without Borders written by King-Kok Cheung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders.

Author : Philippe Otie
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781906838553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Chinese Life written by Philippe Otie and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic novel traces the development of the modern Chinese state while the author chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Chinese everyman as he embraces the new order in childhood, serves in the military and with agricultural labor, and becomes a member of the Communist Party.

Author : J. A. Staunton Batty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Opportunity in China written by J. A. Staunton Batty and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: