Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey. Brian Kennedy

Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey



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Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey Brian Kennedy ebook
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Page: 352
ISBN: 9781583941942


Chinese martial arts masters of the past created special training manuals with text and images, sometimes themselves appearing in the illustrations. These manuals now provide an invaluable glimpse into how various martial arts were practiced in the period spanning the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. Along with biographical portraits of thirty of the most influential masters, Kennedy and Guo provide contextualizing information on the history of martial arts and martial arts manuals, including such topics as the history of Taiwanese martial arts, how Chinese martial artists made a living, the Imperial military exams, and the place of the Shaolin Temple in Chinese martial arts history. Beautifully ...

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