![]() There was a sizable white Russian population in Shanghai who had escaped the Bolshevik Revolution. Given Gong’s story takes place earlier, it also intersects with pivotal events in Chinese history. Though Fists of Fury is set in the next decade, it shares many of the same themes as These Violent Delights: foreign colonizers imposing their will on the Chinese in China, and the impact on the national psyche. ![]() Chen Zhen returns to 1930’s Shanghai from abroad, and immediately goes to fight the Japanese martial arts school that killed his master. Her badassery makes her more like Chen Zhen, Bruce Lee’s character in Fists of Fury. She’s tough and clever, so unlike her insipid Capulet namesake. Had the story taken place then, the comparison to Shakespeare’s work might be warranted. Before she left Shanghai, the two had shared a forbidden teenage romance. ![]() Her Romeo is Roma Montagov, son of the White Flowers’ leader. With underlying themes of immigration and colonization, it’s more akin to West Side Story.ĭaughter of the head of the Scarlet Gang, Juliet Cai, has just returned to Roaring ‘20s Shanghai after a betrayal four years prior sent her to the New York. Instead of rival merchant families, the story revolves around two warring criminal enterprises: the Chinese Scarlet Gang, and the Russian White Flowers. ![]()
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