Advances in Martial Arts Studies
We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 14 of Martial Arts Studies!In addition, we are very happy to let you know that Martial Arts Studies has recently been accepted by Scopus for...
View ArticleMartial Arts Studies Vol. 13 is Now Out!
We are excited to announce that the latest issue of the interdisciplinary journal Martial Arts Studies (an imprint of Cardiff University Press) is now out. As always, it brings high level scholarly...
View Article50 Years After Bruce Lee: Asian Martial Arts On-Screen and Off
Call for Papers for our 8th Annual Conference! 50 Years After Bruce Lee: Asian Martial Arts On-Screen and Off 19-21 July 2023, University of Sheffield (UK) On the 50th anniversary of Bruce Lee’s...
View ArticleWhere Martial Arts and Religion Meet: A Special Issue from Martial Arts Studies
The "Three Prayers to Buddha" section seen in the Wing Chun set Sui Lim Tao. While many modern interpretations of this art coming out of the Ip Man lineage are essentially secular in nature, the...
View ArticleBringing the Hooked Buckler to Life: Two Views of the Gou-Rang
Mysteries In a post reviewing the portrayal of weaponry in Han Dynasty mortuary art I confessed that I really, really, want to assemble a recreation of the sorts of long, horizontal, weapons racks that...
View ArticleChinese Weapons and the Western Gaze
A Collection of Chinese Arms, Published in 1905, posted by Peter Dekker. Spring Cleaning I sat down this morning to work on a project looking at sword aficionados in China, their customers in the West,...
View ArticleBerlin 1936: Chinese Martial Arts on a Global Stage
Introduction The Olympics are once again being hosted by China and the eyes of the world are on Beijing. Martial arts don't really play any role in the Winter Games, but there seems to be more...
View ArticleA Life in Stone: Images of Weapons During the Han Dynasty
Silent Riddles Our discussion of the origins of modern martial arts is always haunted by twin specters. The first is the claim of great, almost unimageable, antiquity. The second is arguments from...
View ArticleThe Woyao Dao and Regionalism in History and Martial Studies
LK Chen's Woyao Dao. Source: LKChensword.com Introduction A package containing two of LK Chen’s fine historical reproductions recently arrived at my door. So, of course, I find myself thinking about...
View ArticleCall For Papers: Martial Arts, Tradition and Globalisation
Photo from the Cornell Wushu Club. What are you most looking forward to as international travel normalizes? If you are anything like me it is a return to in-person Martial Arts Studies conferences! Our...
View ArticleA Conversation With Daniel Amos on Ethnography and Hong Kong’s Martial Arts
John S. S. Long training with his teacher, Wong Lei, in Hong Kong, 1960. Source: http://www.seattlekungfuclub.com/ Introduction Regular readers of this blog with be no strangers to work of Daniel Amos....
View ArticleHong Kong Martial Artists – A Review
Hong Kong Martial Artists, 2021, by Daniel Amos (Rowman&Littlefield). Daniel Miles Amos. 2021. Hong Kong Martial Artists: Sociocultural Change from World War II to 2020. Rowman & Littlefield....
View ArticleRead it Now: Martial Arts Studies, Issue 11!
We are happy to announce that the Summer 2021 issue of the interdisciplinary journal Martial Arts Studies has been released and is now available for free download. Click here to see a complete list...
View ArticleSong Ring Pommel Straight Dao and the Birth of Modern Chinese Martial Culture
Song Dynasty Soldier with Dao Shi Jin and Chinese Martial Arts It is axiomatic among martial arts studies scholars to assert that the fighting systems that people practice today are not the ancient...
View ArticleThrough a Lens Darkly (8): Butterfly Swords, Dadaos and the Local Militias of...
Introduction: The Butterfly Swords and Southern Martial Arts Defend the Nation I recently ran across two photographs that I think students of the southern Chinese martial arts may find very...
View Article“Fighting Styles” or “Martial Brands”? An economic approach to understanding...
***Today's post continues our discussion of economic markets and modernity in the Chinese martial arts. This essay, first posted in May of 2013, was one of my first attempts at hashing out these...
View ArticleThe Wing Chun Jo Fen: Norms and the Creation of a Southern Chinese Martial...
***I am happy to report that I am making good progress on my current writing project. But it is still an ongoing task, and one that consumed much of my weekend. As such our post for this Monday...
View ArticleThrough a Lens Darkly (11): Japanese Martial Artists in China.
Introduction: Addressing a Difficult Subject No topic is more difficult to approach than the varied roles that traditional Asian fighting systems have played in defining and strengthening nationalism...
View ArticleSugong: Nick Hurst Explores South East Asia’s Shaolin Kung Fu Tradition.
Nick Hust. Sugong: The Life of a Shaolin Grandmaster. Sports Books. 2012. pp. 291. Introduction: Summer Reading for Chinese Martial Artists It is that time of year again. It is the season when...
View ArticleImagining the Chinese Martial Arts without Bruce Lee: Sophia Delza, an...
Introduction: Different Visions of the Chinese Martial Arts Assume that we find ourselves in a very specific, recognizable alternate universe. It is almost exactly like ours, but in this world Bruce...
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