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 →
In this semi-regular segment Kung Fu Tea attempts to update readers about interesting martial arts stories in the news that you may have missed. If you know of a story related to the Chinese martial arts that is currently developing... 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 →
Why Talk About Gender in the Chinese Martial Arts? In my years of teaching I have noticed that any discussion of “gender” will usually elicit great interest from a certain percentage of my students, while you can literally watch the... Continue Reading →
Introduction: The only Star Wars post on WordPress this week not about Disney or Lukas. Admit it, you have all done it. At one point or another each of you has looked at your Sifu or Sensei and thought “Its... Continue Reading →
Spiritual Kung Fu Revisited I recently read something by a somewhat prominent writer on the martial arts that made me sit up and take notice. The author (who remains nameless as I am about to criticize him) noted that a... Continue Reading →
Martial Arts and Globalization in late 19th and early 20th century China. In my previous post I proposed a framework for using globalization and the liberalization of China’s economy in the 1980s and 1990s to understand the progressive “medicalization” of... Continue Reading →
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