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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=19010</guid> <description><![CDATA[From the Classical Iconoclast blog via The Chinese Mirror comes this link to one of the few surviving films by the early Chinese martial arts actress Wu Suxin, also known as White Rose Woo. AN ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/white-rose-woo-early-action-star-in-an-orphan-1929/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kung Fu Movies in 1948</title><link>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/kung-fu-movies-in-1948</link> <comments>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/kung-fu-movies-in-1948#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:26:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jean Lukitsh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Electric Shadows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hung Chung-ho]]></category> <category><![CDATA[kung fu movie history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ren Pengnian]]></category><guid
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Detective Chang Apana (1871-1933) of the Honolulu Police Department.
I’ve always been a fan of vintage murder mysteries, but somehow I missed the ones featuring Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American detective on the Honolulu police force. I was ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/chang-apana-and-charlie-chan/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Heroic Daughters: Swordswomen in Traditional Chinese Literature</title><link>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/heroic-daughters-swordswomen-in-traditional-chinese-literature</link> <comments>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/heroic-daughters-swordswomen-in-traditional-chinese-literature#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:37:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jean Lukitsh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Electric Shadows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Swordswoman of Huangjiang - Part 1 (1930)]]></category><guid
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One of the long-lost original Wong Fei-hung movies has turned up on Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing site similar to Youtube.  Someone posted an entire feature-length film from 1956, WONG FEI-HUNG’S LION DANCE VS THE ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/blast-from-the-past-%e2%80%98wong-fei-hung%e2%80%99s-lion-dance-vs-the-golden-dragon%e2%80%99-1956/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Fresh Look at Alan Tang</title><link>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/a-fresh-look-at-alan-tang</link> <comments>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/a-fresh-look-at-alan-tang#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jean Lukitsh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Electric Shadows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alan Tang]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wong Kar-wai]]></category><guid
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Regular readers of this Electric Shadows blog may already know that for eight years, from 1979 to 1986, I worked as a movie projectionist in Boston’s Chinatown. My boss owned two theaters, the Star and ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/a-fresh-look-at-alan-tang/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>INTERVIEW: &#8216;Ink&#8217; choreographer Brian Taylor</title><link>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/interview-ink-choreographer-brian-taylor</link> <comments>http://www.kungfucinema.com/features-all/electric-shadows/interview-ink-choreographer-brian-taylor#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jean Lukitsh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Electric Shadows]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brian Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[INK]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamin Winans]]></category><guid
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