This is Part One of a three part biographical sketch of Sun Lutang. Also see Part Two and Part Three. Introduction: Why Sun Lutang? One of the persistent problems that I see in amateur discussions of “Chinese martial studies” is... Continue Reading →
Introduction New Years is a great time to reflect on where we have been, as well as where we are going. As such, we would like to announce our pick for the "Top Chinese Martial Arts Webpage of the Year... Continue Reading →
Introduction The New Years holiday is a great time to take a moment to reflect on where we have been in the last year. After all, the first step in making a useful resolution is to engage in a little... Continue Reading →
Introduction New Years is upon us and that means that it is time to sit back and reflect on the year's accomplishments and events. This is particularly important in the martial arts as only through studying our actions and responses... Continue Reading →
Meet Bernard, the Kung Fu Elf With only a week left until Christmas it is time to finish off that holiday shopping list. Martial artists are hard to shop for and students of martial studies doubly so. Who knows... Continue Reading →
Giving Up the Gun: Revisiting a Classic Argument. In 1979 a Dartmouth English Professor named Neol Perrin wrote one of the more popular and more widely read books on the history of the martial arts. It was titled Giving Up... Continue Reading →
Introduction This is the third and final installment of our in-depth review of Meir Shahar’s groundbreaking work, the Shaolin Temple. Today we will be looking at the evolution of unarmed boxing in late Ming and Qing era China. I... Continue Reading →
Introduction and Review This is the second part of an extended article on Ip Man's career in law enforcement, and the subsequent emphasis on "ambush" and "multiple attacker" scenarios that later developed in his lineage of Wing Chun. See here... Continue Reading →
Law Enforcement and the Martial Arts in Republican China The intersection between law enforcement and the development of the modern Chinese martial arts is a fascinating topic that deserves a lot more attention than it normally gets. In many ways... Continue Reading →
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