Books and articles in English, Spanish an Chinese the reader can use to get started:
ACEVEDO, William; CHEUNG, Mei. “Republican Period Guoshu Periodicals.” Classic Fighting Arts. Vol 2. No. 26 Issue 49. pp. 56-68, 2014.
ACEVEDO, William; CHEUNG, Mei. “A Historical Overview of Mixed Martial Arts in China”, Journal of Asian Martial Arts 2010.
ACEVEDO, William; CHEUNG, Mei; HOOD, Bonnie. “The History of the Central National Arts Academy”, Classical Fighting Arts 1 & 2, 2009 – 2010.
ARIAS, Enrique. “Orientalismo en el arte español del siglo XIX”. En Actas de las conferencias Encuentro Cultural España-Japón (pp. 9-54). Sociedad Hispánica del Japón. Tokio, 1993.
CHEN, Yuen Kuai. “Long wei zhan jiang, Yu Dayou”. [“Yu Dayou, poderoso general y valiente dragón”]. Taiwan Wu Lin, yi wen chu ban she, 2003-2004, pp.44-48.
CHENG, Zongyou. Shaolin gunfa chan zong [Exposición del método original de bastón Shaolin]. Ke xue ji shu banshe. Shanxi, (c. 1610) 2006.
CHI, His-sheng. Warlord Politics in China. Stanford University Press. Stanford (California), 1976.
CHONG, Yu Sen. Zhongyang Guoshuguan Shi. Huang Shang Shu She. Hefei Shi, 1996.
CLEMENTS, Jonathan. Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Sutton Publishing Limited. Great Britain, 2004.
DAIZEN, Victoria B. Zen at War. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Maryland, 2006.
DESSER, David. “The Kung Fu Craze: Hong Kong Cinema’s First American Reception”. En Poshek Fu y David Desser, The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (pp. 19-43). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, 2000.
DOLE, Arthur. “The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace?”. Cultic Studies Journal, 7(1), 1990, pp. 69-91.
DOHRENWEND, Robert E. “La lanza: un arma efectiva desde la antigüedad”. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2(2), 2007, pp. 8-35.
ELLERTON, Allan. “Fu Shu Yun, One of China’s top Wushu Experts who Performed at the 1936 Olympic Games”. Disponible en http://www.chinesemartialarts.eu/FU%20SHU-YUN.html. [Consulta: 10/08/2009].
FU, P., DESSER, D. (eds). The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, 2000.
GELBER, Harry G. El dragón y los demonios extranjeros. China y el mundo a lo largo de la historia. RBA. Barcelona, 2008.
GOODRICH, Luther C., FANG, Zhaoying. Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644. Columbia University Press. New York, 1976.
GRAFF, A. David. “Dou Jiande’s Dilemma: Logistics, Strategy, and State Formation in Seventh-Century China”. En Hans J. Van de Ven (ed.), Warfare in Chinese History (pp. 77-105). BRILL. Boston, 2000.
GRAFF, David A., HIGHAM, Robin (eds.). A Military History of China. Westview Press. Boulder y Oxford, 2002.
GREEN, A. Thomas (ed.). Martial Arts of the World. An Encyclopedia. Vols. I & II. ABC CLIO. Santa Barbara (California), 2001.
HAAR, Barend J. Ritual & Mythology of the Chinese Triads, Creating and Identity. Koninklijke Brill. Leiden (Holanda), 1998.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts”. China Review International, 6(2), 1999, pp. 319-332.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Chinese Boxing, The Internal Versus External Schools in the Light of History & Theory”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 6(3), 1997, pp. 10-19.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Chinese Boxing’s Ironic Odyssey”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 8(3), 1999, pp. 8-17.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Chinese Martial Arts History and Practice”. The Ethnic Publishing House, 2016.
HENNING, Stanley E. “El general chino Yue Fei: hechos, relatos y misterios de las artes marciales”. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2(1), 2007, pp. 50-55.
HENNING, Stanley E. “La Doncella de Yue: fuente de la teoría de las artes marciales chinas”. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2(4), 2007, pp. 50-53.
HENNING, Stanley E. “La nueva ola china de eruditos de las artes marciales”. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 1(3), 2006, pp. 8-21.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Martial Arts Myths of Shaolin Monastery. Part I: The Giant with The Flaming Staff”. The Chen Journal, 15(1), 1999, pp. 1-2.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Southern Fists & Northern Legs, The Geography of Chinese Boxing”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 7(3), 1998, pp. 24-31.
HENNING, Stanley E. “The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective”. Military Affairs, 45(4), 1981, pp. 173-179.
HENNING, Stanley E. “Thoughts on the Origins and Transmission to Okinawa of Yongchun Boxing”. Classical Fighting Arts, 2(15), 2009, pp. 42-47.
HENNING, Stanley E. “What’s in a Name, The Etymology of Chinese Boxing”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 10(4), 2006, pp. 8-19.
HOLCOMBE, C. “Theater of Combat: A critical look at the Chinese martial arts”. Historian, 52 (3), 1990, 411-431.
HUANG, Ray. 1587 A Year of No Significance. The Ming Dynasty in Decline. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1981.
HUANGFU, Jiang. Iron and Steel Swords of China. Ming Tian Publishing House. Jinan, 2007.
HUNT, Leon. Kung Fu Cult Masters. From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger. Wallflower Press. London, 2003.
HURST, G. Cameron. Armed Martial Arts of Japan Swordsmanship and Archery. Yale UNiversity Press, 1998.
JUDKINS, Benjamin & NIELSON J. “The Creation of Wing Chun, A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts”, Sunny Press, 2015.
KANG, Gewu. The Spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts, 5000 Years. Plum Publications. California, 1995.
KAPLAN, Edward Harold. Yue Fei and the Founding of the Southern Sung [Tesis doctoral]. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1970.
KENNEDY, Brian & GUO, Elizabeth. Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals. North Atlantic Books. Berkeley (California), 2005.
KENNEDY, Brian & GUO, Elizabeth. Jingwu: The School that Transformed Kung Fu. Blue Snakes Books, 2010.
LIU, Jinsheng. & ZHAO, Jiang. (trad. Tim Cartmell). Chin Na Fa Traditional Chinese Submission Grappling. Blue Snake Books. Berkeley (California), 2007.
LIU, T’ieh-yun (trad. Shadick Harold). The Travels of Lao Ts’an. Columbia University Press. New York, 1990.
LIN, Bo Yuen. Zhongguo Wu Shu Shi [Chinese Martial Arts History]. Wu Zhou Publishing House. Taipei, 1996.
LORGE, Peter. Chinese Martial Arts. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
LUO YING, Yan Hua (dir.). New Frontiers, Chinese Kung Fu Series [Documental]. CCTV International, 2008-2009.
MA, Mingda. “Reconstructing China’s Indigenous Physical Culture”. Journal of Chinese Martial Studies, 1(1), 2009, pp. 8-31.
MA, Mingda. Shuo jian cong gao [Discursos de la Espada: Colección de Manuscritos]. Lanzhou da xue chu ban she. Lanzhou, 2000.
MA, Mingda. Wu Xue Tan Zhen [Buscando los Hechos en los Estudios Marciales]. Yi wen chu ban you xian gong si. Taibei Shi, 2003.
MA, Sheng-mei. “Yellow Kung Fu and Black Jokes”. Television New Media, 1(2), 2000, pp. 239-244.
MAMORU, Tonami (trad. P. Herbert). The Shaolin Monastery Stele on Mount Song. Italian School of East Asian Studies. Kyoto, 1990.
MAO Tse-tung. “Tiyu zhi yonjiu” [“A study of physical education”]. Hsin ching nein, primavera de 1917. Disponible en : http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_01.htm. [Consulta: 09/05/2009].
MILLER, Dan. “Jiang Hao-Quan and Ch’uan Shih Pa Kua Chang”. Pa Kua Chang Journal, 2(4), 1992, pp. 1, 3-10.
MIYAZAKI Ichisada (trad. Conrad Schirokauer). China’s Examination Hell. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China. Weatherhill. New York, 1976.
MORRIS, Andrew D. Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China. University of California Press. Berkeley, 2004.
PALMER, Bill; PALMER, Karen; MEYERS, Ric. The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies. The Scarecrow Press. Laham, Maryland, and Oxford, 2003.
PARK, Kwi Soon, “Study on the Historical Exchanges in Martial Arts between Korea, China and Japan since the 16th Century: Comparison between the “Jixiao – Xinshu”, “Heiho – hidensho” and “Bujutsu-hayamanabi “, “Muye-dobo-tongji” [Thesis dissertation abstract]. Kanazawa University Repository for Academic Resources, 2006, pp. 53-59.
PEGG, A. Richard. “Chinese Sword & Brush Masters of The Tang Dynasty (618-906)”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 10(3), 2001, pp. 24-35.
PÉREZ, M., GUTIÉRREZ, C. 100 años de artes marciales: repertorio bibliográfico de monografías publicadas en España (1906-2006). Universidad de León. León, 2008.
PETERSON, Bennett Barbara (ed. ppal.). Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century. M.E. Sharpe. Armonk (New York), 2000.
PILATO, Herbie J. La sabiduría del Kung Fu. Sabios consejos de la serie original de televisión. Obelisco. Barcelona, 1999.
QI, Jiguang (edic. de Ma Mingda). Jixiao Xinshu [Libro de disciplina efectiva]. Renmin Tiyu Chubanshe. Beijing, (1560) 1988.
RICHTER, Friedrich (ed.). The XIth Olympic Games Berlin, 1936. Official Report, Volume II. Wilhelm Limperty. Berlin, 1936.
ROBINSON, D.M., Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court, Harvard University Press, 2013.
RODAO, Florentino. Franco y el imperio japonés. Plaza Janés. Barcelona, 2002.
ROVERE, Dennis A., CHOW, Hon Huen. The Xingyi Quan of the Chinese Army. Blue Snake Books. Berkeley (California), 2008.
SANG, H. Kim (trad.) Muye Dobo Tongji, The Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts of Ancient Korea. Turtle Press. Hartford (Connecticut), (1789) 2000.
SEIDEL, Anna. “A Taoist Immortal of the Late Ming Dynasty: Chang San-feng”. En William T. de Bary and The Conference on Ming Thought, Self and Society in Ming Thought (pp. 483-531). Columbia University Press. New York, 1970.
SHAHAR, Meir. The Shaolin Monastery History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu, 2008.
SHERIDAN, E. J. Chinese Warlord, The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang. Standford University Press. Stanford (California), 1966.
SHI, N., LUO, G. (trad. Sidney Shapiro). Outlaws of the Marsh. Foreign Language Press. Beijing, 1995.
SNOW, Edgar. Red Star Over China. Grove Press. New York, 1938.
SPIESSBACH, Michael F. “Meditating Monk, Martial Arts Master or Make-Believe?”. Journal of Asian Martial Arts, 1(4), 1992, pp. 10-26.
SUN, Lu Tang (trad. Liu Albert, ed. Miller Dan). Xing Yi Quan Xue, The Study of Form-Mind Boxing. High View Publications. California, 1993.
SWOPE, K.M., A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
TEO, Stephen. “The 1970s: Movement and Transition”. En Poshek Fu y David Desser, The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (pp. 90-110). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, 2000.
THEEBOOM, M., DE KNOP, P. “An Analysis of the Development of Wushu”. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 32(3), 1997, pp. 267-282.
WANG, G., YUEH-YU YEH, E. “Globalization and hybridization in cultural products: The cases of Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(2), 2005, pp. 175-193.
WILE, Douglas. Lost T’ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch’ing Dynasty. State University of New York Press. New York, 1996.
WU, H., MAN CHAN, J. “Globalizing Chinese martial arts cinema: the global-local alliance and the production of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. Media Culture Society, 29(2), 2007, 195-217.
YANG, Hong. Weapons in Ancient China. Science Press. New York, Beijing, 1992.
YANG, Ying. “Rewriting the Martial Arts Movie in the Global Era: A Study of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. Ponencia presentada en el Asia Culture Forum 2006 – Wither the Orient: Asians in Asian and Non-Asian Cinemas. Gwangju (Corea), 26 – 29 de octubre de 2006. Disponible en http://www.cct.go.kr/data/acf2006/cinema/cinema-Session%201%20-%20Yang.pdf. [Consulta: 03/05/2007].
ZHANG, Daming. The Stories behind the Long Corridor Paintings at the Summer Palace. New World Press. Beijing, 2002.
ZHANG, Xiaoling. “The Death of Heroes in China”. China Information, 22(1), 2008, pp. 119-137.
ZHENG, Xu (ed.). Ming Zu Chuan Tong Ti Yu Fa Zhan Lun Ji. Er Shi Yi Shi Ji Ming Zu Chuan Tong Ti Yu Fa Zhan Guo Ji Xue Shu Yuan Jiu Hui Wen Ji. [Colección para el desarrollo de deportes tradicionales nacionales. Colección de estudios e investigaciones nacionales para el desarrollo nacional de los deportes tradicionales en el siglo XXI]. Shanghai gu ji chu ban she. Shanghai, 2007.
Online Courses:
China: Traditions and Transformations Open Learning Course, Harvard Extension School.
Free Access Journals
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas (RAMA), Universidad de Leon, Spain.
Ido Movement for Culture, Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology.
International Journal of Martial Arts (INJOMA).
Other Electronic Resources:
Zhongguo Wu Xue 