Description:
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.
Brief description: Paul B. Foster is associate professor of Chinese at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Review Quotes:
[Foster's] enthusiasm and connection-building help the reader make greater sense of the complex, multimedia phenomenon of kungfu storytelling. This book should be of great interest to scholars of Chinese literature and the moving image--and possibly even the dedicated Jin Yong fan.