Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
centuries; his opponent to the west had tofind another source of military power. While it is clear that local Chinese power hold ...
about 50 , 000 men, and over 100 , 000 by the 570 s. Scholars do not agree on the source of manpower for these early armies, wit ...
dynasties, different peoples from the steppe and within the Chinese ecumene circulated in unprecedented numbers, generating grea ...
5 The Sui and Tang Dynasties The Sui Dynasty unified China in 589 under a Chinese emperor for thefirst time since the fall of th ...
farmland and registered with the civilian population. This removed them from the immediate control of their military commanders ...
whose activities were of a‘predatory’nature, local elites who organized forces to protect their communities from the depredation ...
illustration 10.Theatrical representation of the hero Xu Liang, wielding a single-edged curved sword. FromXiaowuyi(Zhonglie Xiao ...
basis for its armies, the concomitant distribution of martial skills among the populace it had required, and the rise of a profe ...
practice archery every day. In thefield, he was armed with sword, spear, bow and arrows, and wore a suit of armor. During the wi ...
directly with thefubingsystem, since thefubingunits could not stay in the field year-round and simultaneously farm their own lan ...
emperor went out to the archery hall and ordered his court officials to shoot.^5 A similar incident occurred in the early Tang, ...
There was also a slight shift in archery in the Tang back to the use of the crossbow. The crossbow had been very important in th ...
illustration 11.Theatrical respresentation of the hero Zhi Hua, the Black Fox, wielding a single-edged curved sword. FromXiaowuy ...
Ceremonial Sword (yidao儀刀), the Defense Sword (zhangdao障刀), the Cross Sword (Hengdao橫刀), and the Divided Sword (modao陌刀).^10 The ...
aesthetic pursuits as on one occasion when Li Bo was ordered by the emperor to sing his own poetry while Pei Min, a renowned mar ...
whose dancing was lavishly praised by Du Fu.^13 She was known through- out the Tang empire, and performed for the emperor, gaini ...
Family cohesion and thefilial requirement to produce heirs were bedrock values in Chinese society from very early times and were ...
Ning, who came upon a wardrobe sitting in the grass while out hunting. When his attendants opened the wardrobe, they discovered ...
turn away from textual erudition is only a significant act for the educated; the uneducated have no choice. Heinrich Dumoulin po ...
had themselves held military positions before becoming Buddhist monks. As we have seen, martial arts skills were common througho ...
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