Description Signs and images of Chinese Martial Arts increasingly circulate through Global Media cultures.
His current work focuses on photography and modernity in late imperial and Republican-era China..
He has published essays on Chinese-language film and television, and a book on the aesthetics of Martial Arts cinema.
His research focuses on Chinese Media culture and aesthetics.
About the Author Tim Trausch is a research associate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne.
From 1920s wuxia cinema to the computer game cultures of the information age, they trace the continuities and transformations of Martial Arts and Media culture across time, space, and multiple Media platforms.
As tropes of Martial Arts are not restricted to what is considered one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, the essays in this collection are looking across and beyond these alleged borders.
Description Signs and images of Chinese Martial Arts increasingly circulate through Global Media cultures
