New! Queens of Wuxia: Hong Kong?s Martial Arts Actresses 1948-1966

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One of the joys of classic Hong Kong action cinema has always been its utter indifference to gender conventions. Wuxia (swordplay) movies, rooted in epic-length novels that meander through a hundred chapters before finding resolution, require plot twists piled upon plot twists. They take place in an off-kilter world where nothing is what it seems, [...]

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