House Of Conspirators

Since the millennium, a flock of Hong Kong producers and filmmakers headed to China's mainland for building theaters, multiplex and coproduce films with other filmmakers in China. Wuxia is the most popular form of exhibition among others. Regarding with the rise of China and the installment of Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) in2004, the market in the mainland became an indispensable part of global cinema. Renewal of the environment of global politic-economy and the social unrest since the handover, the discourse of "local" becomes vigorous and upbeat. Because the collaborative colonial structure transits with Hong Kong handover since1997, national identity could not register or solve the problematic deprived and absent subjectivity of Hong Kong. On the contrary, national identity may collaborate with coloniality, and the bifurcated identity of national and local identity may not be the case. The recurrence and the hegemony of wuxia may not be coincidence. Thus, knight errant may be like comprador or collaborator. As a nationalistic genre and the "Chinese Dream", wuxia could in what way graft into the mainland from Hong Kong and Taiwan easily. In what way and form, can it be translated, transformed and negotiated into the mainland market. Or, why the nationalistic wuxia could flourish in once colonized Hong Kong? As a nationalist commodity, how wuxia could or could not solve the continuous coloniality and again register its rebellion? This thesis would start with the the keyword of "collaboration", by which I would like to analyze the formation of colonial power represented in the wuxia films in the hope of going beyond the dichotomy of colonizers and colonized. I would like to title it with "Collaborators'home". Through extensive ideological and postcolonial reading of the coproduced wuxia films which are directed by Hong Kong filmmakers, I would like to address the complexity and the collaboration of wuxia that may somehow complete the collaboration across borders and then build up the "collaborators'home."...