MCS 168K: Global Chinese Martial Arts Cinema

2026-27

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours

Catalog page 498

Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior

Description: Introduction to the historical development of Chinese martial arts cinema from the 1920s to 2020. Emphasizes this genre’s relationship with science and fate, with nationalism and modernity, with transnationalism and identity, and with soft power.