This thesis analyzes the portrayal of Chinese emperor Wu Zetian within the modern media
mode of video games, specifically within the Japanese game Fate/Grand Order …

This thesis investigates the re-imaginations of canonical women warrior characters in
contemporary Chinese video games, with a focus on the persistent gendered motifs across …

Powerful female characters in films typically face difficulties in maintaining cinematic
believability while integrating their sexually defined gender roles with physical or intellectual …

This chapter examines how the breakthrough of Zhang Ziyi's depiction of a female kung fu
master in The Grandmaster (2013) transforms the figure of the heroine in Chinese action …

Over the last 15 years, Chinese videogames and fan communities have become a site
where state-sanctioned gender norms are reproduced, altered and challenged. This article …

In recent years, the image of China's first emperor Qin Shihuang has made multiple
statements on the notions of hero, Empire, nation states, history, and globalization …

Through an in-depth analysis of gender representation in the box office record-breaking
Chinese movie Wolf Warrior II, this study interrogates how the male body is used as a site for …

When examining two genres, the American Western and the Chinese wuxia (martial
chivalry), we unexpectedly see that the counterpart to the female knight-errant in the wuxia is …

Zhang Che, the late master of Hong Kong action cinema, has been seen as an important
industrial player that influenced the landscape of popular cinema in negotiating, redefining …

This dissertation examines depictions of the Three Kingdoms figure Zhang Fei in zaju, a
dramatic genre which flourished in the Yuan dynasty. I argue that these zaju portray Zhang …