FEMALE MARTIAL EDITION #1
FEATURING CHENG PEI PEI An Extract from Come Drink With Me (1966) by King Hu
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FEMALE MARTIALS: EDITION #1 Featuring Cheng Pei Pei First Published in 2011 By Tong Wei Yue Printed in SIngapore By Tong Wei Yue The right of Tong Wei Yue to be identified as author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that is shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is publishes and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Of all the action directors, only the late King Hu (1931-1997) has managed to capture the real essence of heroism, and then only in one or two of his wuxia pictures (a cycle that includes Come Drink With Me [1966]. The morphological influence of King Hu is still better detected in the central roles given to the female characters. It was Hu who practically reinvented the character of the female fighter in the wuxia tradition with his introduction of the “lady knighterrant” (or xia nü) in Come Drink With Me, his first wuxia picture. In that film, his leading lady was Cheng Pei-pei. King Hu depicted a world in which men and women were fighting on equal terms to restore a precarious equilibrium.