Miao ker hsiu biography of christopher

Sword-Wielding Women of Chinese Cinema:
Films of Nora Miao Ker-hsiu & Angela Mao Ying
Overview by Paghat the Ratgirl

When I was a lot younger, in the 1970s & 1980s, I lived near two Japanese cinemas that showed double bills every week, plus a number of Chinese cinemas.

I had weekly choices of a double-bill from Golden Harvest Theater. And I selected the costume films from among the four films shown weekly on two screens from Shaw Brothers.

Then there was an independent theater that showed Taiwan films, two each Wednesday as that theater was Japanese on weekends.

There was even a theater that showed exclusively films from the Communist mainland, & a theater that showed two Philippino films per week. All this before considering what showed in the film revival theaters or on college & university capuses.

I became steeped in Asian cinema, lived it, breathed it, even wrote some novels published by Ace Books & others inspired by it.

I wore a strange amalgam of