Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
century, defeating orfighting to a standstill a mutiny, a rebellion, and the Japanese army in Korea. These three campaigns, the ...
solely concerned with self-cultivation and self-defense makes a Buddhist origin for the martial arts logical–but erroneous. Fort ...
martial artist; yet we have the spectacle of Buddhist monks deciding to fight physically for leadership. These are not men who h ...
back to at least the seventh century. Strictly speaking, the available docu- mentary evidence does not even allow us to conclude ...
visited. If we recall the Tang period stories of bandit-monks, it is easy to see how bandit-monks are virtually the same as warr ...
Wutai. For some reason, perhaps as a result of the 1356 destruction, Shaolin Temple was reconstituted in the early part of the M ...
The style names must have predated his manual and represent a heavily northern Chinese bias, since he compiled the list while in ...
Qi Jiguang and other authors were not just assembling these lists of styles out of mere curiosity; they were attempting tofind t ...
populace starting in the Song Dynasty but were only infrequently written about before the Ming Dynasty, but this assumption cann ...
Cheng judged superior to that of another martial artist, Guo Wu, who also taught Japanese fencing; others, like Qi Jiguang appro ...
important consistent practice with other forms of martial arts. They were also able to point out that Chinese long sword practic ...
because they expected that martial arts training in the spear would be fairly extensive. We don’t know why this was the case, or ...
naturally even more available than spears and could be carried without necessarily imputing a martial purpose. One record of sta ...
Much of what was recorded had been going on since at least the Song, if not earlier. Local styles of armed and unarmed martial a ...
There is no particular reason to think that some forms of martial arts suddenly switched their emphasis from effectiveness in co ...
9 The Qing Dynasty The Yuan Dynasty crumbled from internal problems exacerbated by rebel- lions, but the Manchus, a newly risen ...
Caught between the developing threat of the Manchus and serious internal rebellions, the Ming court proved incapable of settling ...
and fought under their respective banner leaders. Banner leaders maintained direct military and political power over their banne ...
and cities were drawn away from the dreary life of the garrison and practicing martial arts of dubious value in peacetime to the ...
could not stand up to a modern European-style force armed with modern firearms. Archery was now an archaic skill, whether from h ...
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