Essential Wuxia: The Shaolin Temple (1982)
“The Shaolin Temple (1982)”, directed by Chang Hsin Yen, is a masterwork of dazzling blows and extreme martial arts, set in a...
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- Apr 20, 2022
A Sliding Scale of Cultivation Systems
Everyone loves a good underdog story. There’s nothing quite like seeing someone fight their way to the top, using pure will power to get...
- Apr 13, 2022
What's the Jianghu?
If you’re new to wuxia, you may just see gibberish when I say it, but the jianghu (江湖) is the parallel world, inhabited by bandits,...
- Mar 30, 2022
5 Wuxia Novels for March
Spring is taking its sweet time this year. The nights are still long, and so we've put together a few novels we've enjoyed reading this...
- Mar 23, 2022
Wuxia Weapons: Dog Beating Staff
In wuxia, there are many different kinds of staves and rods that are used as weapons, symbols of power, or "ordinary" walking sticks....
- Mar 15, 2022
Essential Wuxia: Nirvana in Fire
Nirvana in Fire (also known as Langya Bang) is an exceptionally well-written Chinese drama, available with English subtitles on Viki and...
- Mar 2, 2022
Top 5 Wuxia Series on Netflix
Feeling bored, but can't find something good on Netflix? Are you interested in brilliant writing, deep characters and tense drama? Then...
- Feb 17, 2022
Wandering Heroes
Wandering heroes are found in almost every culture, stories of do-gooders who come across folks in trouble, and rush to their rescue,...
- Feb 2, 2022
Bleach: Essential Wuxia Review
We've been wanting to do Bleach for months, but had to pause it when we got busy with our Immortal Swordsmen launch. But now, we're so...
- Feb 1, 2022
Spring Festival: North America
There's a lot to talk about, so let's dive right in and look at celebrations across Canada and the States! Though the traditions we have...
- Jan 31, 2022
Spring Festival: Korea
Tonight marks the eve of the Lunar New Year, and celebrations around the world are well underway. The Lunar New Year festivities in Korea...
- Jan 28, 2022
Spring Festival: Vietnam
In Vietnam, the Spring Festival is called Tết Nguyên Đán, or Tết for short. It almost always starts the same day as Lunar New Year in...
- Jan 27, 2022
Spring Festival: the Philippines
In 2012, then-President Aquino declared that the the Lunar New Year would be a work holiday for all Filipinos, finally recognizing a...
- Jan 26, 2022
Spring Festival: Malaysia
The Spring Festival is a holiday celebrating family as much as it is about bringing good fortune, and what better way to do that than...
- Jan 25, 2022
Spring Festival Celebrations
The Spring Festival - also known as Chinese New Year - is the biggest festival in Asia. It is a time to celebrate family and encourage...
- Jan 19, 2022
Wuxia Weapons: Fans
Today we wanted to talk about one of the weirder weapons we see in wuxia stories: paper fans. If you’re new to wuxia, you might be...
- Dec 27, 2021
The Matrix: Essential Wuxia Review
This week we decided to revisit a classic. Since its debut in 1999, The Matrix has been heralded as groundbreaking, famously combing...
- Dec 21, 2021
The Witcher: Essential Wuxia Review
This week, we’re taking a look at Netflix’s adaption of The Witcher (just Season 1 though, no spoilers!). Are you guys surprised? Well,...
- Nov 26, 2021
Wuxia Weapons: Green Destiny
Named weapons have a long tradition in wuxia stories. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the famed Green Destiny is one such sword. Green...
- Nov 18, 2021
Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen: Interview with Hank Kanalz
Our final interview with the creative team that made our upcoming Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen possible is with Hank Kanalz, the...
- Nov 16, 2021
Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen: Interview with Rex Lokus
We are down to our last two interviews for the creative team of Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen before we launch the comic! Rex...
- Nov 11, 2021
Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen: Interview with Pop Mhan
We have been teasing you guys with Pop Mhan's dynamic art for ages now, and now that our launch is so close, we're here to interview him...
- Nov 9, 2021
Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen: Interview with Bernard Chang
As we get closer and closer to the launch of our first issue of Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen, we are continuing our interviews...
- Nov 5, 2021
Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen: Interview with Peter Shiao
Ahead of the launch of our first issue of Chronicles of the Immortal Swordsmen, we sat down with the creative team that made it all...
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