Imperial China


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    Most Western audiences know this period from Asian pop culture sources such as Wuxia movies, or Japanese works such as the Dynasty Warriors series of games and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms anime, though most of these are based on much older Chinese novels, folk-stories and other source material.

    Life in Imperial China, according to this view, apparently involved lots of politics and betrayal around the Emperor's solid gold palace, punctuated by battles featuring big hulky brocade-wearing brutes mowing down peasant soldiers by the thousands with their flashy musou attacks. When you met a fair maiden, either she was skilled enough with martial arts to kick your butt, or she was a supernatural creature in disguise.

    Popular tropes from this time period are:
    Examples of Imperial China include:

    Chinese works set in this era

    • Most Wuxia books, films, TV series etc.

    Film

    Literature

    Live-Action TV

    Theatre

    • Most Chinese opera

    Japanese works set in this era

    Anime and Manga

    Literature

    • The Favorite by Inoue Yasushi is about Yang Guifei.


    Live-Action TV

    • There have been at least two Japanese TV production of Journey to the West that use a relatively straight fantasy version of the setting. The 1978 version was dubbed by the BBC as Monkey.


    Video Games

    Western Works set in this era:

    Film

    Literature

    Live-Action TV

    • Some parts of the first Kung Fu TV series.

    Theatre

    • The stage play and later opera, Turandot.

    Video Games

    • Jade Empire is set in the role-playing-game fantasy version.

    Western Animation

    • Mulan, though it's based on a traditional Chinese folk-story.

    The Nostalgia Chick: "Sure, let's go ahead and use the word 'honor' fifty times."

    • Two episodes of Histeria! were centered around China. Oddly enough, the show's resident Chinese character, Cho-Cho, barely appears in either episode.
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