The Wuxia & Kungfupunk Knowledge Map
Trace the conceptual web connecting ancient Chinese martial lineages, internal Qi meridians, Jianghu underworld codes, and Phantom Blade Zero's modern Kungfupunk design across 8 interactive networks.
Follow an idea across the centuries
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The Foundations
Names, roles and loyalties: the vocabulary from which a wuxia world is made.
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Wuxia: Martial Chivalry
Wuxia joins wu, the martial, to xia, a figure who may act outside ordinary authority to honour a debt or defend another person.
Read field note →VOL. 02 · The FoundationsJianghu: The World Beyond the Court
The ordinary words jiang and hu mean rivers and lakes.
Read field note →VOL. 03 · The FoundationsThe Xia: Knight-Errant
Xia can denote a person who responds to a moral obligation by taking personal risks, at times outside or against the law.
Read field note →VOL. 04 · The FoundationsWulin: The Martial Community
Wulin literally suggests the community or forest of martial people.
Read field note →VOL. 05 · The FoundationsWuxia and Xianxia
Modern publishing often distinguishes wuxia, centred on martial heroes, from xianxia, where immortal cultivation and transformations of cosmological power are more central.
Read field note →VOL. 06 · The FoundationsWuxia, Kung Fu and Martial Arts Cinema
Martial arts cinema covers many modes of action: grounded hand-to-hand combat, swordplay fantasy, stage-derived gesture, historical spectacle and modern stunt choreography.
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