Reading Xian Xia novels

Once Upon A Time, the movie version of Tang Qi's novel, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (or To The Sky Kingdom, its title in English.)

I was just lamenting to my reading group recently about how the West only gets to see a certain type of fiction from the East. What I jokingly call "sad stories of Asian people" lit. I detest those, not because of its sad endings, but because they only show one side of our culture. I have deep suspicions of WHY they are the preferred lit that the West wants to se...