Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone

Starring: Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, Tony Leung Ka Fai Director: Dante Lam Dvd Release: 20th November, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding

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The jiang hu or gong woo world is the fictional environment in which many wu xia stories are set. The term jiang hu can be translated literally as rivers & lakes; metaphorically, it refers to any wild or unsettled region. In medieval China, outlaws often fled to the frontiers, returning only to prey upon the straight world. The roots of jiang hu wu xia go back at least as far as the 12th-century novel The Water Margin, in which a band of noble outlaws retreat to a swampy hideout & mount wrong-righting sorties against corrupt officials. In modern days, the term jiang hu is still frequently used to refer to the society among gangsters. A 2004 movie titled Jiang Hu starring Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung was about the gangster societies in Hong Kong.

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