Chinese wuxia series are becoming increasingly popular in the West in a similar fashion to Western TV shows gaining audiences in China, thanks to devoted fans and the power of the Internet. Wuxia, ...

Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters is an archetype and an anomaly at the same time. It's an archetypal model for the wuxia swordswoman story in many ways, and an anomaly in how unusual it still is today ...

Liu Suibin (left), the 36th-generation head of the Qingcheng Sect, performs during the Wuxia Literature Golden Sword Awards ceremony in Haining, Zhejiang Province on November 8, 2024. Photo: Courtesy ...

Over the last few years, the genre of fantasy films and TV shows has proved to be one of the most popular in the world. The makers of Chinese dramas take this to a whole new level. In C-dramas, there ...

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest film, “The Assassin,” is the 68-year-old Taiwanese filmmaker’s first foray into the wuxia genre, a Chinese fiction favorite dealing with martial arts, chivalry and sorcery.

Wuxia titles have become popular ever since Where Winds Meet, and Phantom Blade Zero appears to be the next big entry into ...

Wuxia movies were never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn. During the Ming dynasty, the emperor’s minister of defense is framed by a powerful court eunuch and executed, and his family is ...

Don’t call it a Soulslike. S-Game has reemerged to talk up their upcoming Chinese action game, Phantom Blade Zero. But it seems they want to clarify that Phantom Blade Zero is not the game that we ...