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

variations of the same style. In the same way that the sport versions of martial arts gained set forms in accordance with compet ...

from hundreds of martial arts movies that perpetuated and amplified the myths of Shaolin’s central role. Taiji, on the other han ...

acts in that effort was the rebuilding of temples to Guangong (Guandi, the god of war). This was followed by a return to martial ...

as perceived by the general population, would eventually diminish the martial artists’influence. It is also unclear whether some ...

The commercialization of Shaolin’s martial arts reputation and the tourist value it included has moved to a new level with the f ...

“correct”or orthodox forms of those styles. Competitors perfected the execution of those forms according to explicit criteria. W ...

Many practitioners of Wushu dream of following that most famous of Wushu practitioners, Jet Li, into the movies. The performativ ...

in places like Da Fo village are able to use martial arts to challenge, deflect, and undermine local government authority. Not o ...

Conclusion Chinese martial arts is a living tradition with a very long history. As some- thing alive it continues to change, in ...

reflection of the source materials might prejudice the reader into seeing martial arts as more important in the modern period th ...

of Wushu from the Olympics even after China won the hosting of the 2008 summer Olympics was therefore a galling setback. Japanes ...

feature of the state in the form of a monopoly on the licit use of force. Martial arts is simply better trained and executed vio ...

of elegant techniques over direct power and toughness occasionally man- ifests itself, the shift appears complete and permanent. ...

To Close It is challenging to end a book that I hope has opened up more questions and topics than it has resolved. Indeed, I hav ...

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Notes Introduction Douglas Wile,T’ai Chi’s Ancestors, New York: Sweet Ch’i Press, 1999. Meir Shahar,The Shaolin Monastery, Hono ...

Yang Hong,Weapons, 4. Mark Edward Lewis,Sanctioned Violence in Early China, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990 , ...

discuss the texts respectively attributed to thesefigures as if they were the authors, without further parsing of their authoria ...

Watson, trans.),Records of the Grand Historian, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958 ; Sima Qian,Shiji, Taibei: Dingwen Shu ...

threat to Xiang Yu’s interests and convinced Xiang Zhuang to try to assassi- nate Liu. 14. Ban Gu,History of Former Han Dynasty, ...