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An Early Story of Kho Ping Hoo [PDF]
Kho Ping Hoo (1926–1994) is the most well-known of all Indonesian writers of popular silat stories, largely set in China, which describe the adventures and romances of legendary heroes famed for their skill in martial arts.
Watson, C. (CW)
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Las artes marciales del ejército chino en el Periodo Republicano
A principios del s. XX, China fue víctima de numerosos ataques provenientes de los poderes extranjeros, los cuales dieron paso a la pérdida de algunos de sus territorios y supusieron una afrenta al orgullo nacional.
William Acevedo, Mei Cheung
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Study on the Regulation of Brain Structure and Cognition Function in Different Sports Patterns
Background: After the age of 20, the brain’s high-level functions, such as working memory and control inhibition ability, decline year by year. This decline is usually associated with the atrophy of the brain’s structure, such as the lateral prefrontal ...
Tongtong Hao, Ying He
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As a treasure left over from Chinese traditional culture, martial arts have a long history and lasts for a long time. With the country’s promotion and support of martial arts culture, martial arts have also attracted more and more people’s attention.
JingGang Li +3 more
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Does the Karate Kid Have a Kung Fu Dream? Hong Kong Martial Arts between Hollywood and Beijing [PDF]
This analysis of the martial arts choreography in The Karate Kid (2010) examines the contradictory matrix in which action films produce meanings for global audiences. A remake of a 1984 film, this iteration of The Karate Kid begins its imaginative battle
Marchetti, G
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ANALISIS PERBANDINGAN KUNGFU WING CHUN DARI TIONGKOK DAN PENCAK SILAT MERPATI PUTIH DARI INDONESIA
Martial art is one of physical exercises. Martial arts nowadays are gaining in popularity. In addition to sports, martial arts are learned to protect ourselves from various kinds of attacks.
Wandayani Goeyardi
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Lau Kar-leung with Walter Benjamin: storytelling, authenticity, film performance and martial arts pedagogy [PDF]
This recent article considers how we might understand the politics of corporeal identification that stands at the heart of the pleasures of kung fu cinema, and how might this be built on the forms of pedagogy – the ‘embodied knowledge’ – of the martial ...
White, Luke
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Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 [PDF]
Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia.
A Fuqua +21 more
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The Spiritual Features of the Experience of qi in Chinese Martial Arts
I argue in this article, grounding on a phenomenological analysis of the experience of qi in Chinese martial arts, that the experience of qi in this framework can share the features of a secular spiritual experience, in other words of a spiritual ...
Veronica Cibotaru
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Canton Kung Fu: The Culture of Guangdong Martial Arts
During the 20th century, a version of Kung Fu from the Guangdong region in Southern China became more widely known abroad as a result of Chinese migration to the West, as well as its exposure through popular culture, including the films of Bruce Lee ...
Guo Ye
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