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In The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora, Kin-Yan Szeto critically examines three of the most internationally famous martial arts film artists to arise out of the Chinese diaspora and travel far from their homelands to find commercial success in the world at large: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan. Positing the idea that these filmmakers' success is evidence of a ""cosmopolitical awareness"" arising from their cross-cultural ideological engagements and geopolitical displacements, Szeto demonstrates how this unique perspective allows these three filmmakers to develop and

Lee, Ang --- Woo, John --- Chan, Jackie --- Los Angeles [California] --- Martial arts films --- Kung fu films --- Spaghetti Easterns --- Action and adventure films --- History and criticism. --- Cheng, Long, --- Woo, John, --- Lee, Ang, --- Chʻeng, Lung, --- Chan, Jackie, --- Chan, Jacky, --- Chen, Lung, --- Chan, Kong-sang, --- Chan, Yuen-Lung, --- Sing, Lung, --- 成龍, --- 成龙, --- Wu, Yü-sen, --- Wu, Yusen, --- Wu, Yu-Sheng, --- Ng, Yu-sum, --- Wu, Yu-Seng, --- 吳宇森, --- 吴宇森, --- Li, An, --- 李安, --- Criticism and interpretation.