Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Modern Chinese speakers usually refer to“wushu”武術,literally“mar- tial arts”or“martial techniques”when discussing the martial art ...
it as an ancient discipline. Here we are faced with a fundamental problem in proving or disproving the existence of specific phy ...
China. Many scholars of China, both Chinese and foreign, have accepted the myths andfictions of the martial arts without serious ...
1 From the Stone Age to the End of the Spring and Autumn Period The bow and arrow was for savagery what the iron sword was for b ...
one occasion, for example, she led some 13 , 000 troops in an attack on the Qiang. The oracle bones themselves, usually turtle p ...
complete, outfits of arms and armor, though even these high-born warriors maintained martial skills similar to those of their lo ...
actual historical records, however laconic and uneven in reliability. With respect to military matters, most citations simply me ...
at a distance. We cannot know from archaeology why it made sense to execute a prisoner with a volley of arrows rather than simpl ...
demonstration was seen as a sign of true manliness (and won over the woman in question).^8 It was not that thefirst man was inca ...
A significant caveat to this characterization of early Shang formations is the discovery in an early Shang tomb in Hebei of aji, ...
The persistence and ubiquity of the dagger-axe in combat was not reflected in a concomitant symbolic importance. In the symbolic ...
We cannot know whether such a ceremony with these particular concerns took place before Lady Hao went out on her campaigns, but ...
included weapons. The dagger-axes in tombs, both combat and symbolic, are markers of the close association between Shang, Wester ...
device. A similar process of adopting a foreign military practice would occur with the advent of cavalry at the end of the Sprin ...
Here too it is the enemy that uses chariots in war, and not the Shang. Warfare was extremely lethal, and while we have no idea o ...
period. In other words, a change in battlefield technology would result in a later shift in martial arts practice. This change i ...
state useful in combat. Dance as a whole is a challenging subject for historical study because, unlike weapon skills, it leaves ...
moving evenfifty or a hundred yards away from the overall commander, let alone a much greater distance. Music also aroused the e ...
battlefield weapon use rather than performances demonstrating weapon skills. Any Zhou court performance would have provided an a ...
contests of skill. Explicitly military demonstrations complete with weap- ons and music were critical ceremonial events in the Z ...
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