Backstory
Authors tell you what inspired their work
Arthur Rosenfeld, Author of "The Crocodile and the Crane"May 3, 2008
As a devotee of Chinese martial arts and Chinese culture in general, I've been familiar with martial arts stories since the days of David Carradine's TV Show Kung Fu. What I didn't know until I began to read so-called martial arts stories in novel form is that most of the great literary works of China fit into this category, works ranging back a thousand years or more.
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