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The term Wulin (武林) can be found in the wuxia fantasy genre and in world of Chinese martial arts. It refers to the subculture surrounding a community of martial arts masters. The literal translation of Wulin is ‘martial forest’ and so calls to mind images of a single forest comprised of may different trees (schools/masters). It is a…
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Black Salt Comic Book Returns!
Award-winning franchise expands with Issues #5 & #6 and a collected hardcover edition Ratti Entertainment, in partnership with Wise Acre Comics, is excited to announce the Kickstarter pre-launch campaign for Black Salt: The Last Heroes Left, a martial arts comic series that fuses espionage, action, andAfro-Asian storytelling. The campaign will fund the completion of Issues…
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Redefining Wuxia
Wuxia (武侠)—once confined to historical Chinese novels and films—has become a global storytelling language. Yet, as it permeates international media, it’s being reshaped in ways that demand urgent re-examination. We must ask: Are modern works honoring wuxia’s core, or diluting it?
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Teresa Robeson Interview: part 2
On writing a non-fiction biography of Bruce Lee In part one of our interview we cover author Teresa 何 Robeson’s background growing up in Hong Kong to becoming a writer in North America. Beginning with short works in children’s literature and poetry, her more recent work has been part of Penguin’s middle-grade graphic novel “Who…