Introduction: Chinese Martial Studies, Embodied Knowledge and Identity. In 2011 SUNY (State University of New York) Press released a collected volume (edited by D. S. Farrer and John Whalen-Bridge) titled Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a... Continue Reading →
Introduction Welcome to the first installment of "Chinese Martial Arts in the News" of 2013. For new readers this is a semi-regular roundup of important stories or events in the world of the Chinese martial arts. In these segments I... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Why Does Chinese Martial Studies Need Globalization? In a previous post I asked whether “globalization,” understood as the increased movement of capital, goods, people and ideas through networks divorced from the traditional state, is having an impact on the traditional... 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 →
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