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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...
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  • 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...
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    and gunfights. Sub-genres of martial arts films include kung fu films, wuxia, karate films, and martial arts action comedy films, while related genres...
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  • 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...
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    Action film (section Wuxia)
    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...
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  • Chinese alchemy, other traditional elements of Chinese culture, and the wuxia genre. Xianxia is fictional martial art stories where the main goal of the...
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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...
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  • Warrior and becomes a master of kung fu, the franchise is set in a fantasy wuxia genre version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic animals. Although...
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    Wuxia Subdistrict (simplified Chinese: 无瑕街道; traditional Chinese: 無瑕街道; pinyin: Wúxiá Jiēdào) is a subdistrict located in the eastern portion of Dongli...
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  • 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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    Jin Yong (category Wuxia writers)
    2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: 金庸), was a Hong Kong wuxia novelist. He was Hong Kong's most famous author and the newspaper Ming Pao's...
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    action hero. She was best known for King Hu's wuxia film Come Drink with Me (1966) and Ang Lee's wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Cheng...
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  • Wuxia (simplified Chinese: 巫峡; traditional Chinese: 巫峽; pinyin: Wūxiá) is a town in Wushan County, Chongqing province, China. As of 2020[update], it administers...
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  • October 29, 1996), is a Chinese actor. He is best known for his roles in the wuxia drama Handsome Siblings (2020) and coming of age drama Our Secret (2021)...
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    needed] 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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  • Algorithm System), based on the storyline and characters from Jin Yong's wuxia novels. The player takes on the role of present-day protagonist, who falls...
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  • actor based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is best known for directing various wuxia films in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema...
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  • Gu Long (category Wuxia writers)
    Senior High School and Tamkang University, Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series...
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  • Jianghu (category Wuxia)
    Chinese term that generally refers to the milieu in which many Chinese wuxia, xianxia, and gong'an stories are set. The term is used flexibly, and can...
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  • including heroic fantasy, epic fantasy, mythic fantasy, dark fantasy, and wuxia. It typically is not considered to include the sword and sorcery genre....
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    Qinggong (category Wuxia)
    translated as 'lightness skill'. The use of qinggong has been exaggerated in wuxia fiction, in which martial artists have the ability to move swiftly and lightly...
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    Awards, Zhang gained international recognition for her performance in the wuxia martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated...
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  • Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (category Wuxia films)
    Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a 2011 wuxia film directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Gwei Lun-mei, Louis Fan and...
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    The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (category Wuxia films)
    film series eventually led the Kuomintang to ban all wuxia films by the early 1930s because wuxia was thought to be inciting anarchy and rebellion. List...
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  • Winds Meet is an upcoming open world role-playing video game based on the wuxia genre developed by Everstone Studios and published by NetEase. It is expected...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jianghu is the community of martial artists in wuxia stories and, more recently, outlaw societies like the Triads. Jianghu or...
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  • the Condor Heroes, also called The Giant Eagle and Its Companion, is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It is the second part of the Condor Trilogy...
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    cinema. Wǔxiá figures prominently in the popular culture of Chinese-speaking areas, and the most important writers have devoted followings. The wǔxiá genre...
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  • Young Flying Fox is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). The novel was first serialised in Hong Kong in 1960 in the magazine Wuxia and History (武俠與歷史)...
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  • The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳) is a wuxia novel by Chinese writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It is the first part of the Condor Trilogy and...
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