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Author | : Gene H. Gause |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1467082260 |
Most available works on the double hook sword are of the dance variety. This is the first text which provides access to the actual martial arts usage. This version explains the use of the swords vs. focus on acrobatics and impractical movements. This author has received many requests to provide such information and hopes that all true martial artists will enjoy this form for many years to come.
Author | : Judith Smallwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Dao yin |
ISBN | : 9780989073707 |
Explanation of Chi with 149 art pieces (pictures, charts, illustrations and photos). It is 308 pages; written by Master Gaofei Yan and Jude Brady Smallwood, Tai Chi Instructor for 30+ years. The Book, and e-book soe sale soon was copywritten in 1999 and being published in 2013.
Author | : Chris Crudelli |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008-09-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0756651859 |
Drawing on the vast body of styles practiced around the world, including ancient and obscure styles from every continent on the planet, The Way of the Warrior is an indispensable, one-stop reference work for anyone interested in the martial-arts canon.
Author | : Yuri Pines |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520289749 |
In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
Author | : Tang Cheong Shing |
Publisher | : Singing Dragon |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2015-03-21 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0857011723 |
With detailed photographs and clear instruction for practice, this is the first book comprehensively to cover the history, development and training methods of this rarely taught esoteric internal martial art. The deceptively simple postures and movements of Yiquan are highly effective for achieving results for both health and combat, making it very appealing to martial artists, and Master Tang here reveals the secrets of a martial art still surrounded in mystery. He also provides a history of the origins and lineage of the Yiquan tradition, as well as detailed information on the stances and movements, weapons, and programs, grading and teaching. This complete guide to Yiquan will be essential for anyone interested in Yiquan or oriental martial and internal arts more generally.
Author | : Liezi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231072373 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Christianity |
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Author | : Stephen Owen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 2741 |
Release | : 2015-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 150150195X |
The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional commentaries overlook. The main body of the text is a facing page translation and critical edition of the earliest Song editions and other sources. For convenience the translations are arranged following the sequence in Qiu Zhao’an’s Du shi xiangzhu (although Qiu’s text is not followed). Basic footnotes are included when the translation needs clarification or supplement. Endnotes provide sources, textual notes, and a limited discussion of problem passages. A supplement references commonly used allusions, their sources, and where they can be found in the translation. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. The scholar may use this as a baseline to agree or disagree. Other readers can feel confident that this is a credible reading of the text within the tradition. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu, which can present problems for even the most learned reader.
Author | : Robert W. Smith |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2003-05-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781556434556 |
Harmoniously merging the mind and the body, Hsing-I Ch'uan is simultaneously one of the most simple and most complex of the Chinese martial arts. The five forms, based on the Chinese concept of the five elements, provide a toolbox of techniques that the skillful Hsing-I practitioner uses to box with himself, channeling ch'i into spirit and spirit into mindful stillness. From this synthesis of external and internal forces springs new energy and true ability. Engagingly written and amply illustrated with black and white photographs, Robert W. Smith's primer includes the history and meaning of Hsing-I, detailed instruction in the five forms and twelve animal styles, and cogent advice from the masters. First published almost 30 years ago, Hsing-I: Chinese Mind-Body Boxing was among the first books on Hsing-I and remains one of the best.
Author | : Beata Grant |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824832027 |
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence beginning in the late Ming of educated women as readers and, more importantly, writers. Only recently beginning to be explored, however, are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as "the reinvention" of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of "classical" Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in these religious developments has hardly been noted at all. Eminent Nuns is an innovative interdisciplinary work that brings together several of these important seventeenth-century trends. Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time, but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of collections of "discourse records" (yulu) of seven officially designated female Chan masters in a seventeenth-century printing of the Chinese Buddhist Canon rarely used in English-language scholarship. The collections contain records of religious sermons and exchanges, letters, prose pieces, and poems, as well as biographical and autobiographical accounts of various kinds. Supplemental sources by Chan monks and male literati from the same region and period make a detailed re-creation of the lives of these eminent nuns possible. Beata Grant brings to her study background in Chinese literature, Chinese Buddhism, and Chinese women’s studies. She is able to place the seven women, all of whom were active in Jiangnan, in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts, while allowing them, through her skillful translations, to speak in their own voices. Together these women offer an important, but until now virtually unexplored, perspective on seventeenth-century China, the history of female monasticism in China, and the contributionof Buddhist nuns to the history of Chinese women’s writing.