Introduction: A Breakthrough for the Field of Chinese Martial Studies. The “Book Club” is a semi-regular feature at Kung Fu Tea in which we collectively read and discuss important works in the fields of martial studies, history or the... 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 →
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: The Traditional Military Kukri. New projects are always a learning experience, and one of the things that I have found most surprising here at Kung Fu Tea has been the persistent popularity of the one post which I wrote... Continue Reading →
Welcome of the Halloween 2012 edition of Kung Fu Tea! A few weeks ago I had the chance to review Alex Gillis' groundbreaking work on the origins and development of Tae Kwon Do, A Killing Art. Click on the links... Continue Reading →
How did Boxing Influence the Adoption of the Martial Arts in America? The history of the Chinese fighting arts in America is relatively brief and poorly understood. While some studies of individual schools and teachers exist, I have never... Continue Reading →
Are the Asian Martial Arts Inevitable? I suspect that students of Chinese martial studies are overlooking one of the most perplexing, interesting and possibly illuminating questions that our field can ask. We spend so much time recording, studying and theorizing... Continue Reading →
Alex Gillis. A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do. Ontario: ECW Press. 2011 (First published in 2008). 246 pages. $16.95 USD. As I mentioned here I am assembling a reading list for an undergraduate course on the... Continue Reading →
By my count we are in the third era of "Chinese Martial Studies." The first was spearheaded by Tang Hao and ran from the early 20th century to WWII. The scholars interested in the martial arts were mostly from China... Continue Reading →
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