Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
combat. In Yuan period plays, some characters represent themselves as skilled with spear and staff, and having studied boxing an ...
Chinese, and something usually practiced outside of the formal military. There were no large standing formations of Chinese troo ...
The king her father wished to give her a husband. But she steadfastly refused, declaring that she would never take a husband til ...
about men they heard of as skilled boxers that they ordered them to court. On both occasions, the emperors selected strong men t ...
and ruthless, good at horse archery.”^19 She became leader of the bandit army when her brother was killed and no competent male ...
with which to establish an enduring Chinese hegemony over territory that includes part of the steppe. Mongol rule thus becomes“C ...
to the Chinese. The martial arts were widely practiced in the villages and towns despite Yuan prohibitions, maintaining traditio ...
8 The Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang ( 1328 – 98 ), the man who founded the Ming Dynasty, began his life in abject poverty and spent ...
government. He sought tofix permanently the correct balance between the martial and civil in his dynasty, at least as he conceiv ...
increasing number of men competed for a more or lessfixed number of slots, thus lowering everyone’s chances of passing almost to ...
illustration 18.Theatrical representation of the hero Han Tianjin, holding a staff in a dramatic pose. FromXiaowuyi(Zhonglie Xia ...
was something composed for the educated elite. Some historians have read Ming literati writing on the martial arts transparently ...
Dynasty, tempered by the practical need for armed forces and local security, and the widespread, popular performance of martial ...
deployment to function effectively in battle. The dynasty’s original military system did not just fail to produce trained men bu ...
level of society.^4 Even confining our consideration to the use of martial arts in this economy (and excluding areas like domest ...
urban thugs, bandits, rebels, soldiers, or traveling martial artists. Several officials recognized a unifying thread for men in ...
illustration 19.Theatrical representation of the hero Deng Che, drawing a bow without an arrow. FromQixia Wuyi, 1889. 166 The Mi ...
The second structural problem of the Ming military was its system of recruitment and training. Troops were recruited from design ...
These differences would be played out in several conflicts. In response to thewokoupirates, General Qi Jiguang was required to r ...
illustration 20.Theatrical representation of the hero Ouyang Chun, the Northern Hero, in a highly stylized pose with the heavy, ...
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