My family and I spent a month and a half visiting Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Japan during the summer. As expected, the summer heat was quiet a thing to get used to for people like us, used to the Canadian winters. As is customary when I travelled, I am always looking for opportunities to learn […]
Special thanks to Dennis Rovere for his valuable insights and corrections Martial arts in general and Chinese martial arts in particular have been characterized by an aura of mystery on what a devoted practitioner can achieve after mastering a traditional style. Many of these misconceptions stemmed from novels, movies and in a great degree from […]
General Qi Jiguang (1528 – 1588) was born in a hereditary military family in 1528 at Dengzhou, Shandong province. Qi received education in both the Classics and military skills from a tender age and assumed his father’s rank in 1544. He took the military examinations receiving the Juren degree in 1549, but was unsuccessful in […]
“If one has to fight, let civilization defeat barbarism (…) if they [the Chinese] could have the qualities of any of the western countries, it would be enough to stop such enterprise. Moreover, one would have to think what the Chinese could do to us in such case… However, right at this moment we are […]
The China of the early XXth century experienced major political and social changes thanks to a combination of local and foreign forces creating the right environment from which many reformers arose. In the realm of Chinese martial arts, Ma Liang (馬良) also know as Ma Zizhen (馬子真, 1875-1947) would give a start to the modernization […]
A Chinese martial arts master has died, the students make preparations for his funeral in anticipation of those people seeking to pay their respects. During a moment of silence following a speech by one senior member of the Chinese school, a group of Japanese martial artists make their entrance and arrogantly offered their “respects” to […]
This is my first post after getting rid of my Blogger account several months ago, I am hoping to write an entry at least once a month on topics that I hope can trigger curiosity towards a better understanding of Chinese Martial Arts. As a disclaimer English is not my first language, therefore sentence structure […]
Zhongguo Wu Xue 