Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the fourth in a sequence of five novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s that are collectively called the Crane Iron Pentalogy, written by Wang Dulu

Wang Dulu

Wang Baoxiang , style name Xiaoyu , better known by his pen name Wang Dulu , was a Chinese writer of wuxia novels. Wang is best known for his work, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that was adapted into a successful feature film of the same title by film director Ang Lee in 2000.-Biography:Wang was...

 from 1938 to 1942.

Adaptations

Ang Lee

Ang Lee

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...

's film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...

is loosely based on this book.

New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2004 DVD film based on the novel by Wang Du Lu. The DVD film as released in the West is composed of footage from a Taiwanese television serial of the same name...

was a 2004

2004 in film

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 film edited together from a Taiwanese television series.

The novel has been turned into a manhua

Manhua

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 series by Andy Seto

Andy Seto

Andy Seto is a comic artist who specializes in martial-arts based stories.-Biography:Seto's works include his main series, "Cyber Weapon Z." He has also drawn a graphic novel adaptation of the earlier Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon novels, the King of Fighters series, and also created a graphic...

, translated into English and distributed by ComicsOne

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