Jin Yongs Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex

Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex explores the role of Jin Yong's popular martial arts fiction in Chinese literary and cultural discourse. The kungfu industrial complex accounts for how his characters, stories, and tropes maintain cultural significance via adaptation in television and film.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Wuxia Fiction, Film and Construction of the Kungfu Industrial Complex
Chapter One: Kungfu Cultural Literacy: Situating Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction
Chapter Two: Jin Yong's Rhetorical Kungfu: Cultural Capital of Humor
Chapter Three: Canonization, Cultural Capital, National Character
Chapter Four: Kungfu Star Power: The Entertainment Jianghu
Chapter Five: The Kung Fu Hustle Hustle
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Paul B. Foster

Summary

Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex explores the role of Jin Yong’s popular martial arts fiction in Chinese literary and cultural discourse. The kungfu industrial complex accounts for how his characters, stories, and tropes maintain cultural significance via adaptation in television and film.

Product details

• Authors: Paul B. Foster
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781666921472
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-147-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000