Tag: Brigitte LIn
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A Queer Icon and the Power and Eloquence of Effeminacy
POWER AND THE ELOQUENCE OF EFFEMINACY Jin Yong’s wuxia novel The Smiling and Proud Wanderer antagonist was given the name, Dongfang Bubai, meaning Invincible East, Asia the East, or Asia the Invincible. In the novel and film, Bubai heads the “Sun-Moon Holy Sect” (Rì Yuè Shén Jiào), an unorthodox martial arts sect. Bubai wanted to…
The American Minervan 