Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
The decline of aristocratic power with respect to the state was accom- panied by an increasingly specialized, or perhaps even“pr ...
In the Warring States period we see for thefirst time, though it may have begun earlier, a slight separation between war, and th ...
performance of shooting. Other texts indicate that a similar state could be achieved through mastery of any physical skill, so t ...
3 The Qin and Han Dynasties My strength uprooted mountains, My power covered the age. But the times do not favor me, And Piebald ...
Having created China’sfirst empire, the Qin government had to shift its efforts toward internal consolidation and demilitarizati ...
the household forces of local powerful families, led by a member of the imperial clan and bolstered by the militia, defeated him ...
arts were toofirmly embedded in society. One of the main entertainments was martial arts performances. The Qin response was not ...
The First Emperor and His Would-Be Assassins The Qin creation of a unified Chinese empire faced considerable opposi- tion both f ...
than being an aspect of his upbringing that he subsequently dropped (as a counterexample, see Xiang Yu, discussed later). Jing K ...
cut his own throat to accomplish his goal, be it preserving his honor or furthering a plan to kill his enemy. Jing Ke did not, h ...
The weapon he provided for this strongman was an iron staff weighing 120 catties (about 160 pounds). Although we hear nothing ag ...
to destroy it. Two men emerged as the major contestants in this conflagra- tion: Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang Th ...
Xiang Yu followed his uncle, Xiang Liang, into rebellion against the Qin in209 bce. One of theirfirst acts was to murder Yin Ton ...
long sword and began the dance. Seeing its purpose, another man, Xiang Bo, drew his long sword and also danced, but he kept hims ...
high social standing required a response of some kind to a challenge to personal combat. Xiang Yu’s proposal of a duel was not s ...
possessed the world. Yet in the end I have now been cornered here. It is Heaven that destroys me. It is not any fault of mine in ...
border army) rebelled in197 bce, Liu Bang discovered that all of Chen’s generals were formerly merchants. Their background, at l ...
population of the capital came to watch a wrestling competition three years later.^20 The party atmosphere for foreign envoys wa ...
to throw him down from the hall by“throwing his neck”(摔胡).^22 This is a reminder that the martial arts always maintained both a ...
meaning simply extraordinary bravery.^25 There is some archaeological evidence showing images of men boxing in a variety of stan ...
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