***Audience interaction and feedback is a critical part of any seminar or set of academic meetings. Lacking the spontaneity of an in person gathering I turned to Melisa Spence, a dedicated students of the Chinese martial arts and a long... Continue Reading →
By Daniel Mroz, Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Canada ****I am very happy to introduce the following research report by my friend and colleague, Prof. Daniel Mroz of the University of Ottawa. He has recently returned from conducting some fieldwork... Continue Reading →
A statue of a Tengu dressed as an ascetic mystic on a mountain pilgrimage. Source: Christian Bauer via Wikimedia. Introduction Welcome to the second part of our roundtable discussion of the fields of martial studies/Chinese martial studies. If you are... Continue Reading →
A stylized rendition of a Japanese Tengu. These mountain demons were sometimes imagined as great teachers of martial wisdom. ***While typing up the ongoing roundtable discussion between Prof. Paul Bowman and myself on the state of martial studies, it occurred... Continue Reading →
Introduction If I have learned one thing after years of attending academic conferences it is that every gathering must have at least one "roundtable discussion." Our own 2013 Web Symposium on Chinese Martial Studies is no exception. As such I... Continue Reading →
Video games are an important force in modern popular culture. I remember talking to new students when I was teaching introductory Wing Chun classes for my Sifu back in Salt Lake. I would often ask students what got them interested... Continue Reading →
By Brian L. Kennedy and Elizabeth Guo Brian L. Kennedy has been kind enough to kick off our "2013 Web Symposium on Chinese Martial Studies" with the following guest post. In this article he revisits some of his previous research... Continue Reading →
In honor of Kung Fu Tea's 100,000th page view I would like to welcome you to the 2013 Web Symposium on Chinese Martial Studies. I Over the next three weeks a variety of students and scholars will be contributing... Continue Reading →
This is the second section of our two part discussion of Chinese Archery (2000, Hong Kong University Press) by Stephen Selby. In part one we examined the first half of his book which covered the earliest written records of... Continue Reading →
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