Anhua Zhou

Desire, judgment, and burdened agency: Female knight-errant subjectivity and production formation in three contemporary Chinese Wuxia films

This article contributes to feminist wuxia studies by asking how contemporary Chinese wuxia films make women legible not only as fighters but as ethical subjects. Comparing Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin (2015), and Yuen Woo-ping’s...