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Martial Arts History, Wing Chun and Chinese Martial Studies.

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Research Note: General Ma Liang’s ‘New Wushu’ Comes to America (1924)

Introduction I am always on the look out for vintage newspaper accounts of Chinese martial arts for my database. While it takes some digging, it is not that difficult to get a sense of what is happening in the English... Continue Reading →

Jingwu and the Creation of the “Kung Fu” Brand

  Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom Our daily conversations are made up of innumerable facts drawn from what might be termed, “the conventional wisdom.”  The contents of this warehouse of social knowledge are so widely shared that none of us stop... Continue Reading →

Ma Liang’s “New Wushu:” Modernizing and Militarizing the Traditional Chinese Martial Arts

    Asking “What if?” Few things are more difficult to research than historical events that did not happen.  This is especially true for social scientists who approach the question of theory creation and hypothesis testing from a more empirical... Continue Reading →

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