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Does the Karate Kid Have a Kung Fu Dream? Hong Kong Martial Arts between Hollywood and Beijing [PDF]
, 2014 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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El General Qi Jiguang, visionario y defensor de una nación
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012 En el año 1550 d.C. el esplendor de la Dinastía Ming se vio amenazado por fuerzas extranjeras tanto en el norte como en las costas del este. La aparición de uno de los generales más famosos de su historia, el General Qi Jiguang, cambiaría la forma en la
William Acevedo, Mei Cheung
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Study on the Regulation of Brain Structure and Cognition Function in Different Sports Patterns
Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2022 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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International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2022 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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ANALISIS PERBANDINGAN KUNGFU WING CHUN DARI TIONGKOK DAN PENCAK SILAT MERPATI PUTIH DARI INDONESIA
Puitika, 2020 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]
, 2014 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]
, 2014 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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A Human Body Model for Calculating Taiji
Journal of Taiji Science, 2023 Handan Taiji Collage has researched the science of Taiji for many years. In the following is a review of this work. Taiji is now recognized to be a treasure of Chinese martial arts and Chinese culture, but it is important to integrate the ancient poetic
Jie Gu顾杰 +2 more
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Taijiquan the 'Taiji World' way: Towards a cosmopolitan vision of ecology. [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, we present a case study analysis of data gathered on the practice of the art of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) in one UK context. Our interest in looking at this physical culture was in exploring if/how physical cultures of shared embodied ...
Atkinson +26 more
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