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↑ Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema - Page 113 0810879131 Tan Ye, Yun Zhu - 2012 And sometimes, but not always, martial arts films appear less excessively imbued with violence and bloodshed. The history of the martial arts film can be traced back to the early 1920s, when some pioneering Chinese filmmakers turned to wuxia, “or swordsmen,” novels and other types of fantasy literature for materials to be filmed. Examples include Ren Pengnian's An Empty Dream (1922, adapted from a story in Strange Stories from Liaozhai), Fu Shunnan's A Chivalrous Boy (1924), ...
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