Introduction As some of you may have noticed, posts here at Kung Fu Tea and on the Facebook group have been coming a little more slowly than normal over the last month. That is because Paul Bowman and... Continue Reading →
Introduction For readers in the United States, happy Columbus Day! And what better way to enjoy your three day weekend than getting caught up on the latest martial arts news. "Chinese Martial Arts in the News" is a... Continue Reading →
Introduction Prof. Maofu Gong is an Associate Professor of Sports Culture at Chengdu Sport University. He is also a visiting scholar with the Cornell University East Asia Program where he is working on a project titled... Continue Reading →
"The way in which we read the document depends on what we have read before." Evelyn S. Rawski, October 1, 2015, "Crossing from Nation to Region: China in Northeast Asian History." Introduction Recently I had... Continue Reading →
Introduction While many of the vintage images introduced in this series have focused on martial themes, characters or weapons, few of them have attempted to reveal scenes of martial artists simply practicing their craft. And the vast... Continue Reading →
Introduction Every practicing martial artist knows that the most deadly attack is the one that you did not see coming. A successful ambush is extremely difficult to counter. And this is precisely what makes the subject of “history”... Continue Reading →
Introduction Welcome to “Chinese Martial Arts in the News.” This is a semi-regular feature here at Kung Fu Tea in which we review media stories that mention or affect the traditional fighting arts. In addition to discussing... Continue Reading →
Introduction Our essay for today is a guest-post of sorts, reblogged from Paul Bowman's always excellent (and aptly named) Martial Arts Studies. He sent me a link to this post and I have been giving it a... Continue Reading →
“No man can do justice to another’s human total.” -Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols (1967, p. 150). Introduction If culture is understood as a system of interlocking signs, a complex of meanings, beliefs and practices that... Continue Reading →
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