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Kung Fu Tea Selects the Top Chinese Martial Arts Webpage of 2012

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 →

A Year in the Chinese Martial Arts: The Events and Stories that Shaped 2012, Part II

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 →

A Year in the Chinese Martial Arts: The Events and Stories that Shaped 2012, Part I

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 →

2012 Christmas Shopping List: New Toys and Long Reads to Get you Through the Winter Months.

  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 →

How Yoda Helped to Invent Kung Fu: Star Wars and the Martial Arts in the Western Imagination.

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 →

Alex Gillis Discusses Tae Kwon Do and “A Killing Art” with Kung Fu Tea.

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 →

Is the iPhone Killing Kung Fu? Economics and Globalization in Chinese Martial Studies.

The Traditional Chinese Martial Arts: Something that Young Adults used to do? Globalization and technology are having an unmistakable effect on martial arts around the world, and the Chinese martial arts are no exception.  Of course this will not come... Continue Reading →

The Kukri and the Katana: Understanding and Appreciating the Rarity of the Martial Arts.

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 Takes on a “Killing Art.”

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 →

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