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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