chinese culture
Six Crimson Cranes: an attempted fusion of cultures & fairy tales
Once upon a time, a princess, pampered and raised in the lap of luxury since birth, is exiled from her kingdom when her wicked stepmother transforms her six loving brothers into white birds. As if her fate isn’t already terrible enough, she is cursed into silence, for if a single word passes her lips, one […]
Literary ‘kung fu pandas’: the Chinese wuxia genre and why Westerners don’t know it (Part II)
‘Without the trials and travails of stormy waves, no jianghu can be formed’—in Part II of this article, Audrey Wong continues to unpack the cultural barriers for Western readers of the wuxia genre.