Hi you two,

IMO (I just understood today what it means!), This is a movie for both occidental and oriental targets:
– Martial arts movies are successful in occident (Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, the seven samourais,…) and we like epic stories.
– Asians like them too, even more if it is related to their own History.

I see two difficulties to make it in China:
– A lot of martial arts movies are already made in China and chinese are most protectionist than Hollywood. However, the entry gate for chinese cinema is Honk Kong.
– Chinese culture construction is complex, with a lot of codes and paradigms harder to understand than three-acts-construction, protagonist VS antagonist or Hero’s Journey. If you want to do it, I think that you must deeply explore the Chinese culture and History, espacially the “Wuxia” phenomenon. Great lines as similar to ours as it match with the Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, but the differences are in every details of everything in life.

Your chinese audience may find your story like you find my english sometimes!
Maybe they will enjoy better a good occidental movie about their cultural heritage than a strange Chinese movie.

Below some links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youxia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia
http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.fr/2013/03/guest-post-writing-wuxia-as-chinese.html (don’t know if is good)

And recent movie made in Honk-Kong with surprising special effects (In accordance with my taste, this is not the best of the genre, but maybe it is what chinese like?):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnloiu_wu-xia-vostfr-partie-1_shortfilms#.UbSv0vnwaSo

An other link (better I think) on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ancientseries

I hope this will be helpful.

All the best.