When Chinese Martial Arts Flies Through the Global Box Office Taiwan-born director Ang Lee won accolades for turning a Chinese novel into the fantastical, money-making movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. With undeniably Chinese martial arts action and a romantic story the Brothers Grimm would have praised, Lee's blockbuster appealed to audiences the world over. But with so many different cultural elements in the film, should we think of the movie as Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hollywood at its flashiest? - YaleGlobal When Chinese Martial Arts Flies Through the Global Box Office Was Crouching ...