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Authors: Lu Zhouxiang
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Chinese martial arts is considered by many to symbolise the strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history, and has long been regarded as an important
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Denis Gainty
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancien
Stateless Subjects
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Pages: 279
Authors: Petrus Liu
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-31 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The Creation of Wing Chun
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Benjamin N. Judkins
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-16 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Ko
Paper Swordsmen
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: John Christopher Hamm
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-l