This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent ... the man who had taught them kung fu. Some wore monks' robes and offered blessings as they entered ...

The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, evolving from beautifully showy, ornate wuxia stories into the “chopsocky ...