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History of East Asian Martial Arts: Week 10 – Modernization of Chinese...
Wing Chun in Singapore. A class using a variety of traditional training modalities. Introduction Welcome to week ten of “History of East Asian Martial Arts.” This series follows the readings being...
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COVID-19 and A Little Change of Plans
Tree wrestling, College Station, TX 3/2020. From the personal collection of Thomas Green. “A Little Change of Plans” by Prof. Thomas Green In the beginning… As the news began to arrive about what was...
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History of East Asian Martial Arts: Week 11 – Reinvention of Jujutsu (and the...
Introduction Welcome to week eleven of “History of East Asian Martial Arts.” This series follows the readings being used in Prof. TJ Hinrichs’ undergraduate course of the same name at Cornell...
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Technique and Belief in Martial Arts Studies
Answering their Questions COVID-19 has badly disrupted our world. Both jobs and lives have been lost. Professional commitments have been put on hold and training schedules transformed. Yet the...
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Reflections on Training Alone: Martial Arts in a Time of Pandemic
Janet O-Shea. Source: Author’s personal collection. Introduction This is the fifth guest post in our short series examining the ways that the current health crisis has impacted those of us who sit at...
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Rethinking the Martial Arts Community through COVID-19
Chad Eisner demonstrating the best case scenario for an extended period of solo-practice. Source: Author’s collection. Introduction This is the sixth guest post in our series examining the ways that...
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Thriving in Pandemictown and Its Guilt
A press photo of a Taijiquan practitioner in China, 1972. AP photo by Faas. Source: Author’s collection. Introduction Welcome to the seventh guest post (by Adam Frank) in our ongoing series...
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BJJ in the Age of Zoom
BJJ is a martial art known for its constant live testing in sparring sessions called ‘rolling’ and competition. Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash Introduction This is the eighth guest post in our...
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Do martial arts make better citizens? How the pandemic answers a classic...
Yang Style Taiji in Shanghai, 2005. The traditional Chinese martial arts are always forced to create a sheltered space within the larger community. Source: Wikimedia. “Do martial arts really make...
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Introduction Welcome to the seventh guest post (by Andrea Molle) in our ongoing series examining the ways that the current health crisis has impacted those of us who sit at the intersection of martial...
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Capoeira in the Age of COVID: An Art of Resilience
Introduction This is the third essay in our short series examining the ways that the current health crisis has impacted those of us who sit at the intersection of martial arts practice, communities...
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Chinese Martial Arts in the News: May 22, 2020 – Epidemic, Closure and The...
Lam Shu-shing (left) and student practice chi-sao on a roof top in Hong Kong. Billy H.C. Kwok:Bloomberg Introduction It has been way too long since our last news update. We are fortunate to have had...
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Reflections on COVID-19, transnational (im)mobility, and collective ways of...
Introduction This is the tenth guest post in our series examining the ways that the current health crisis has impacted those of us who sit at the intersection of martial arts practice, communities...
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How to get Stabbed with a Sword in China
Confiscated weapons. Shanghai Municipal Police Department, 1925. University of Bristol, Historical Photographs of China. A Thought Experiment I suspect that anyone with even a passing interest in...
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History of East Asian Martial Arts: Weeks 12-14: Politics of Film and Online...
Bruce Lee wearing his iconic yellow track suit in “Game of Death.” Introduction Welcome to our final discussion of the “History of East Asian Martial Arts.” This series follows the readings being...
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Invest in Loss: Hope for Traditional Martial Arts
Lam Shu-shing practices with a student.Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg It was the best of times…. I like going to the gym. My reasons are not overly complicated. Nice treadmills are...
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Lives of Chinese Martial Artists (23): Fu Zhen Song – Southbound Tiger
Source: https://www.facebook.com/Fu-Style-Internal-Martial-arts-System-傅振嵩傳內家拳-111903698917070/ History as the cure for Ideology Everyone has a personal mental image of the Chinese martial arts. The...
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Through a Lens Darkly (64): Military Exercise Among the Chinese
A guard house, Canton, China, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XXV, no 655, June 17, 1882. Photography vs Illustration There was just some discussion on the Kung Fu Tea Facebook page...
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Bruce Lee and the Problem with Being Water
A Modest Proposal Numerous commentators have noted that this is a tough time to be a bronze statue. Icons of the 18th and 19th century slave owning class are vanishing from the public landscape in...
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Mulan, the Hidden Hilt Dao and the Dragon Sparrow: LK Chen Explores the...
Mulan as she appreared in “New Poems and Pictures of One Hundred Beauties” (Bai mei xin yong tu zhuan), a woodblock-printed book published in four volumes between 1796 and 1820. Note that in this print...
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