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Conference Paper: Law against humanity in Peter Chan Ho-sun’s Wu Xia
Title | Law against humanity in Peter Chan Ho-sun’s Wu Xia |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | University of London. |
Citation | The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities (ASLCH 2013), University of London, Birkbeck, UK., 22-23 March 2013. In Conference Ptogramme, 2013, p. 127 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper explores the cinematic treatment of law, justice, morality and human relationships in Wu Xia (2011). Wu Xia is not just another Hong Kong martial arts film; in fact, it has only three fight scenes and is dialogue heavy. From its stunningly detailed visual recreation of a Chinese rural village in 1917, its incorporation of medicine and physics in its action elements, to a refusal to infuse black and white morality in its character development, the film stands out in its realism. The paper argues that the film ridicules a legalistic approach to justice and places the practice of law at opposite extremes with humanity. I will analyse its jurisprudential musings about free will, punishment and blame attribution for human behaviour. Since the film is a mainland Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, I will also compare the language used in the two different versions released in Hong Kong and mainland China and interpret the contrasts in their respective social, political and historical contexts. |
Description | Session 3: 7.11 Portraying the Human: Panelist 1 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/185189 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Leung, J | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-15T10:39:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-07-15T10:39:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities (ASLCH 2013), University of London, Birkbeck, UK., 22-23 March 2013. In Conference Ptogramme, 2013, p. 127 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/185189 | - |
dc.description | Session 3: 7.11 Portraying the Human: Panelist 1 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the cinematic treatment of law, justice, morality and human relationships in Wu Xia (2011). Wu Xia is not just another Hong Kong martial arts film; in fact, it has only three fight scenes and is dialogue heavy. From its stunningly detailed visual recreation of a Chinese rural village in 1917, its incorporation of medicine and physics in its action elements, to a refusal to infuse black and white morality in its character development, the film stands out in its realism. The paper argues that the film ridicules a legalistic approach to justice and places the practice of law at opposite extremes with humanity. I will analyse its jurisprudential musings about free will, punishment and blame attribution for human behaviour. Since the film is a mainland Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, I will also compare the language used in the two different versions released in Hong Kong and mainland China and interpret the contrasts in their respective social, political and historical contexts. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of London. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, ASLCH 2013 | en_US |
dc.title | Law against humanity in Peter Chan Ho-sun’s Wu Xia | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Leung, J: hiuchi@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Leung, J=rp01168 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 216114 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 127 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 127 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |