Jingwu

Author : Brian Kennedy
Publisher : Blue Snake Books
ISBN 13 : 1583942424
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jingwu written by Brian Kennedy and published by Blue Snake Books. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, because of their ties with the failed Boxer Rebellion and the rise of modern weaponry, Chinese martial arts were in serious danger of extinction. The Jingwu Association was formed to keep these ancient arts alive. Jingwu: The School That Transformed Kung Fu tells the story of this seminal institution. Extensively researched, the book shows Jingwu as the first public martial arts training school and the first to teach kung fu as recreation, not simply as a form of combat. It was also the first to incorporate women’s programs with men’s, and the first to use popular media to promote Chinese martial arts as both sport and entertainment. Through these efforts, the Jingwu Association helped guarantee Chinese martial arts would survive the transition from traditional to modern China. This lively history covers the school’s tumultuous beginnings; the four historical phases of Chinese martial arts that inform it; profiles of important practitioners like Huo Yuanjia; those elements, such as the integration of women, that have made Jingwu distinctive and enduring; individual branches and practices within the larger system; and more. Rare historical documents and vintage photographs take the reader directly into one of the most fascinating and important stories in martial arts.

Author : Eyal Aviv
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004437916
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-Eye: Ouyang Jingwu and the Revival of Scholastic Buddhism written by Eyal Aviv and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-Eye, Eyal Aviv offers an account of Ouyang Jingwu, a revolutionary Buddhist thinker and educator. The book surveys the life and career of Ouyang and his influence on modern Chinese intellectual history.

Author : Li Donghao
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
ISBN 13 : 1304421554
Total Pages : 3037 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Heaven written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 3037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhuo Yu is sixteen years old, seven feet tall and has a strong body. He has short hair, healthy wheat skin, a knife-like face full of youthful and lively breath, and a pair of dark eyes with cheerful and lively light. He is dressed in dirty rags, rolled up his trousers and wore a pair of dirty cloth shoes on his feet, which is extremely out of tune with his thin and handsome face.

Author : Zhang Cheng
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
ISBN 13 : 1304450562
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The holy warrior is proud of heaven written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a room in this mansion. The doors and windows of the room are wide open. A teenager is lying on the bed without a quilt. This young man is the owner of this mansion, and the cloud is like a ruin.

Author : Andrew D. Morris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520240841
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marrow of the Nation written by Andrew D. Morris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Bryna Goodman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248821
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suicide of Miss Xi written by Bryna Goodman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suicide scandal in Shanghai reveals the social fault lines of democratic visions in China's troubled Republic in the early 1920s. On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in the Shanghai newspaper office where she worked. Although her death occurred outside of Chinese jurisdiction, her US-educated employer, Tang Jiezhi, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities and put on trial. In the unfolding scandal, novelists, filmmakers, suffragists, reformers, and even a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party seized upon the case as emblematic of deep social problems. Xi's family claimed that Tang had pressured her to be his concubine; his conviction instead for financial fraud only stirred further controversy. The creation of a republic ten years earlier had inspired a vision of popular sovereignty and citizenship premised upon gender equality and legal reform. After the quick suppression of the first Chinese parliament, commercial circles took up the banner of democracy in their pursuit of wealth. But, Bryna Goodman shows, the suicide of an educated "new woman" exposed the emptiness of republican democracy after a flash of speculative finance gripped the city. In the shadow of economic crisis, Tang's trial also exposed the frailty of legal mechanisms in a political landscape fragmented by warlords and enclaves of foreign colonial rule. The Suicide of Miss Xi opens a window onto how urban Chinese in the early twentieth century navigated China's early passage through democratic populism, in an ill-fated moment of possibility between empire and party dictatorship. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizen's rights, gender equality, and financial prosperity betokened by liberal democracy and capitalism.

Author : Xu Ze gang
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
ISBN 13 : 1304487547
Total Pages : 1598 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Vein written by Xu Ze gang and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young man, in his twenties, has fine eyes and a slightly thin body. The most distinctive feature is his eyes, which are big and bright, showing an unyielding and stubborn. This young man is known as Du Yun

Author : Benjamin N. Judkins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438456956
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creation of Wing Chun written by Benjamin N. Judkins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance. This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong’s Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee’s teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly visible symbol of southern Chinese identity and pride. Benjamin N. Judkins and Jon Nielson examine the emergence of Wing Chun to reveal how this body of social practices developed and why individuals continue to turn to the martial arts as they navigate the challenges of a rapidly evolving environment. After surveying the development of hand combat traditions in Guangdong Province from roughly the start of the nineteenth century until 1949, the authors turn to Wing Chun, noting its development, the changing social attitudes towards this practice over time, and its ultimate emergence as a global art form. Benjamin N. Judkins holds a doctoral degree in political science from Columbia University. Jon Nielson is chief instructor at Wing Chun Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Author : Jing Wu Hen
Publisher : WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Godly Monarch(1) written by Jing Wu Hen and published by WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited). This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Province of the Nine Skies, far above the heavens, there exists Nine Galaxies of Astral Rivers made up of countless constellations interwoven together. For Martial Cultivators, they could form an innate link with one of the constellations, awaken their Astral Soul, and transform into a Stellar Martial Cultivator. Legend has it that, the strongest cultivators in the Province of the Nine Skies, were beings that could open an astral gate every time they advanced into a new realm. Their talent in cultivation was such that they could even establish innate links with constellations that existed in a layer higher than the Nine Layers of Heavens, eventually transforming into the heaven-defying and earth-shattering power known as the War God of the Nine Heavens. Qin Wentian is the MC of this story. How could a guy, with a broken set of meridians, successfully cultivate? There were countless Stellar Martial Cultivators, as there were countless constellations in the vast starry skies. What he wanted to be, was the brightest constellation of all, shining dazzlingly in the vast starry skies.

Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520933323
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2 written by Melvyn C. Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened—and why—during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.