Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all of Kung Fu Tea's readers. Thanks so much for your support and feedback over the last year. I think that my friend Bernard, the Kung Fu Elf, left one or two... 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 →
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 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 →
Rediscovering the Dadao: A Forgotten Legacy of the Chinese Martial Arts. Any review of the history of the Chinese martial arts in the 20th century will quickly suggest that these civilian art forms have, at various points, been co-opted and... Continue Reading →
Introduction Welcome back to the second installment of the Book Club. In this series of posts we will be taking a more detailed look at some of the most important works in the field of Chinese martial studies. Our first... Continue Reading →
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