Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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Chinese Martial Arts From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts ar ...

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Chinese Martial Arts From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century PETER A. LORGE Vanderbilt University ...

cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Ca ...

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Introduction Preface and Acknowledgments pageix Defining Martial Arts Authenticity and Real Kungfu Kung Fu, Gongfu, Qigong, and ...

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Preface and Acknowledgments I was not born a warrior. I am not tough, strong, fast, agile, or brave, so I have none of the natur ...

citations. Yuh-fen Benda greatly facilitated my research, on one occasion turning what would have been a week and a half of work ...

Introduction Chinese martial arts has a written history and is part of the society in which it developed. One of the greatest my ...

expected to become soldiers when needed. In unstable and war-ridden times the martial arts were thus widely practiced throughout ...

however, the represented world offiction frequently deviates sharply from the real practice. While this book makes some use offi ...

teaching, they do not constitute an“art”in the sense of being a body of information or techniques that aim to reproduce certain ...

All cultures have martial arts; highly developedfighting techniques are not unique to East Asia. It is merely a modern construct ...

religious Daoism and Buddhism and was mostly practiced outside the religious context. Only by excluding soldiers and militiamen, ...

Authenticity is an argument for the value of a particular practice or way of practicing rather than a historical artifact. There ...

Common to all of the arguments about authenticity is competition in the marketplace for martial arts students and legitimacy. So ...

better for doing it, regardless of the pedigree of the style. At some point a practice may stray so far from earlier techniques ...