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

Notes

Introduction

1. Douglas Wile,T’ai Chi’s Ancestors, New York: Sweet Ch’i Press, 1999.


2. Meir Shahar,The Shaolin Monastery, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press,


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   3 .The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, vol. 3 , Oxford:
   Clarendon Press, 1987 , 473 ( 558 ).

   
   


4. Morohashi Tetsuji, Dai Kan-Wa Jiten,vol. 2 , Tôkyô: Taishûkan Shoten,
   1984 – 86 , 367 ; Zhang Fangjie,Far East Chinese-English Dictionary,Taibei:Far
   East Book Company, 1992 , 148.


5. Luo Zhufeng (ed.),Hanyu Dacidian, vol. 2 b, Shanghai: Hanyu Dacidian
   Chubanshe, 2008 , 766.


6. The paradigmatic sentence,“His Kung-fu is very good,”might be more
   completely translated as“His technique/skill is very good,”or more succinctly,
   “He is very skilled.”


7. Xunzi, Yang Liang (ed.),Xunzi, Tokyo: Xunzi Li shi Riben Dongjing shi shu,
   1884 , ch. 10 , 5 b.


8. Matthew Polly,American Shaolin, New York: Gotham Books, 2007 , 6.


9. Matthew Polly, personal communication, 9 January 2010 .I wish to express
   my deepest gratitude to Mr. Polly for his prompt and thorough response to my
   questions.


10. Wang Guangxi,Gongfu, Taibei: Yunlong Chubanshe, 2002 , 319 – 20.

1 From the Stone Age to the End of the Spring and Autumn Period

1. Frederick (Friedrich) Engels,The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the
   State, New York: International Publishers, 1942 , 20.


2. Wenwu Chubanshe,Yinxu Dixia Guibao:Henan Anyang Fu Hao Mu, Beijing:
   Wenwu Chubanshe, 1994 , 142.


3. Jia Lanpo et al.,“Report on Excavations of Shiyu Paleolithic Sites in Shanxi,”
   Journal of Archaeology, 1 ( 1972 ), 51 – 2 , cited in Yang Hong (Zhang Lijing,
   trans.),Weapons in Ancient China, Rego Park, NY: Science Press New York,
   1992 , 9. I have been unable to locate the original article. Stephen Selby gives a
   somewhat later range of 20 , 000 – 10 , 000 years, see Stephen Selby,Chinese
   Archery, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2000 , 6.

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