Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex
Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong’s stories and characters in the construction of the “kungfu industrial complex”—a complicated, multi-dimensional cultural/business matrix related to the production and consumption of martial arts fiction, film, and legacy. The author first explicates the “kungfu cultural literacy” that makes Jin Yong’s characters and stories intelligible and compelling to a wide audience and then argues that academic resistance to integrating his pop fiction into the canon of Chinese literature is overcome via the national character discourse. The author subsequently explores the role of actors, directors, and crews as they repeatedly adapted the novels for film and television and provided afterlives for Jin Yong’s characters, stories, and tropes, both kicking off actors’ careers and driving the globalization of kungfu action. Archetypical characters, multidimensional production and consumption of cultural capital and star power meet in a final analysis of the “Kung Fu Hustle Hustle,” which balances critical reality and a hopeful vision for China’s future.

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Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex
Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong’s stories and characters in the construction of the “kungfu industrial complex”—a complicated, multi-dimensional cultural/business matrix related to the production and consumption of martial arts fiction, film, and legacy. The author first explicates the “kungfu cultural literacy” that makes Jin Yong’s characters and stories intelligible and compelling to a wide audience and then argues that academic resistance to integrating his pop fiction into the canon of Chinese literature is overcome via the national character discourse. The author subsequently explores the role of actors, directors, and crews as they repeatedly adapted the novels for film and television and provided afterlives for Jin Yong’s characters, stories, and tropes, both kicking off actors’ careers and driving the globalization of kungfu action. Archetypical characters, multidimensional production and consumption of cultural capital and star power meet in a final analysis of the “Kung Fu Hustle Hustle,” which balances critical reality and a hopeful vision for China’s future.

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Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex

Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex

by Paul B. Foster
Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex

Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex

by Paul B. Foster

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Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong’s stories and characters in the construction of the “kungfu industrial complex”—a complicated, multi-dimensional cultural/business matrix related to the production and consumption of martial arts fiction, film, and legacy. The author first explicates the “kungfu cultural literacy” that makes Jin Yong’s characters and stories intelligible and compelling to a wide audience and then argues that academic resistance to integrating his pop fiction into the canon of Chinese literature is overcome via the national character discourse. The author subsequently explores the role of actors, directors, and crews as they repeatedly adapted the novels for film and television and provided afterlives for Jin Yong’s characters, stories, and tropes, both kicking off actors’ careers and driving the globalization of kungfu action. Archetypical characters, multidimensional production and consumption of cultural capital and star power meet in a final analysis of the “Kung Fu Hustle Hustle,” which balances critical reality and a hopeful vision for China’s future.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666921496
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 11/21/2024
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.19(w) x 9.34(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul B. Foster is associate professor of Chinese at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Table 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

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