I consider wu xia as fantasy with martial arts, as much as western stories have any resemblance to what really happened in the "wild" west. I think Jin Yong's

I consider wu xia as fantasy with martial arts, as much as western stories have any resemblance to what really happened in the "wild" west. I think Jin Yong's draw, as with most fiction writers, is placing the fantasy within a context of current social issues, thus allowing readers strong identification.