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- The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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summary
Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.
Table of Contents
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- Maps and Figures
- pp. ix-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- Part I. Hand Combat, Identity, and Civil Society in Guangdong, 1800–1949
- Part II. Conflict, Imperialism and Modernization: The Evolution of Wing Chun Kung Fu, 1900–1972
- Epilogue. Wing Chun as a Global Art
- pp. 265-282
- Works Cited
- pp. 327-336
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438456959
MARC Record
OCLC
914325859
Pages
362
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-25
Language
English
Open Access
No
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