by Luke White, REAKTION BOOKS; 1st edition (13 June 2022) In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong ― epitomized by Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon ― smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America, and ignited a ‘kung fu craze’ that swept the world. Fighting without Fighting explores this dramatic […]
by Andrea Falk | March 2022 | Via TGL Books Epub Edition: Foreign Exchange Student in Wushu at the Beijing Physical Culture Institute during the 1980s Beijing Bittersweet is a memoir of the 1980s at the Beijing Physical Culture Institute. The author, Andrea Falk, was a government sponsored student in wushu from 1980 to 1983, graduating as […]
by Michael A. DeMarco M.A. | September 2021 | Via Media Publishing (September 27, 2021) Abstract The themes in this book—drawn from Chinese history, culture, and martial arts experience—are entwined in a fictional narrative to animate events envisaged to have occurred during the mid-eighteenth century. From the outset, a thin veil separates fact from fiction. Our story […]
by Svitlana Zavialova. The Wu Woman Company (January 11, 2020). Shen-fa: The Art of Cognitive Transmission of Martial Movement and Emotion is an installation diary by The Kung Fu Visionary artist Svitlana Zavialova known as Wu Woman. Devoting a decade in China to the passionate pursuit of immaterial force in wushu. Svitlana’s writing aims to invoke […]
by William Edward Douglas Jr., 2020 You may have read claims before that a book can change your life and the world. However in the opening pages of The Gospel of Science you will read comments from top experts in the fields of: Mind-Body and Personal Growth, Physics, Sociology, Economics, Government, and Theology, who after enjoying […]
by Benjamin N Judkins & Jon Nielson. State University of NY Press, 2015. 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 […]
