Fine China, Kung Fu Style
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Zhang Ziyi battles with the big boys in the dazzling, devious martial-arts epic House of Flying Daggers
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Politics and art donât always mix well, but the combination has yielded a rare chance for Hong Kong residents and visitors to see what is arguably Chinaâs most famous painting.
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A wave of musical talent has begun flowing out of China in recent years, and Hong Xu, is among the elite of those performers.
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with
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Quentin Tarantino attends a screening for a film at the opening of the Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 12, 2004. Tarantino told a British magazine that he&#39;s planning a kung-fu film with the
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Jet Li wants to touch your soul before he kicks your butt. The Hong Kong action star says too many martial-arts movies ignore heart and emotion in favor of vengeance and gore.
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The much-anticipated &quot;House of Flying Daggers&quot; (Shimian Maifu), a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; has met with a mixed market response.
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A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer.
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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN
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Chinaâs Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.  Shaolin Temple, in the northern provi...
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A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead.
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CHONGQING, China  - China's western metropolis of Chongqing is typically described as gritty and industrial. Its new Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai, is known as worldly and sophisticated.
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Beneath the fighting killer he often plays with amazing moves and flying leaps, Jet Li is a romantic and a seeker. As the nameless martial artist in the Chinese historical epic ``Hero,&#39;&#39; opening
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While rappers lick standard-issue grapefruits Comments Monks at the Shaolin Temple in China were so incensed by an assertion by a Japanese internet user that a single ninja had once laid the smackdown on their greatest that they have deployed a feared warrior lawyer (presumably trained to an equally high standard in both law and arse-kicking). They have demanded that the internet user "apologise to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did". We suggested a pay-per-view "Battle of the Titans" between the kung-fu monks and Japan's top ninjas. This is a match made in Heaven for the many thousands of you who daily debate the merits of the two sides, even if it does lack pirates.â¦
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The frank approach to sex in Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers" is part of a significant, if subtle change brewing in Chinese film.
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Tacos, pizza, and the colonel's secret recipe tantalize taste buds in China.
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International action king and martial arts expert Jackie Chan is in the country.