The Shaolin Monastery. History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts

Notes

Introduction

1. The comparison has been made by Wile, Lost T’ai-chi Classics, pp. 25–30. On
   the Republican discourse of nation building and martial training, see also Morris,
   Marrow of the Nation, pp. 185–229; and Zhongguo jindai tiyu shi, pp. 127–145,
   265–296.


2. Bloch, Historian’s Craft, p. 45.


3. The Monastery


4. On the Shaolin Monastery, see Fu Mei, Song shu (preface 1612); Jing R izhen,
   Shuo Song (preface 1721); and Shaolin si zhi (preface 1748), compiled by Ye Feng et
   al., revised by Shi Yizan et al. The above three are also available in a modern type-
   set edition in Song yue wenxian congkan.
   The best modern history is Wen Yucheng, Shaolin fanggu. See also Xu Chang-
   qing, Shaolin si yu Zhongguo wenhua; Shaolin si ziliao ji, ed. Wu Gu and Liu Zhixue;
   Shaolin si ziliao ji xu bian, ed. Wu Gu and Yao Yuan; Xin bian Shaolin si zhi; and the
   entry “Shôrinji” in Mochizuki Shinkô, ed., Bukkyô daijiten, 3:2806 –2807.


5. Henan ranks twenty-sixth in household consumption, twenty-eighth in per
   capita net income of rural households, and twenty-ninth in per capita annual in-
   come of urban residents (of China’s thirty-two provinces and independent munici-
   pal regions). These 1999 figures are culled from the China Statistical Yearbook 2000,
   pp. 70, 332, and 319 respectively.


6. The price of an individual ticket is 40 yuan, or US $5. The income they pro-
   vide is shared by the monastery and the provincial authorities (information gath-
   ered by the author during visits to the temple in the late 1990s).


7. See Ching’s essays “United Nations, Divided Shaolin,” “Battling to be Shao-
   lin’s Best,” and “13,000 Warriors of Taguo”; see also Howard W. French, “So Many
   Paths. Which Shaolin Is Real?”


8. See Ching, “In the Dragon’s Den.”

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