Feng Yuxiang – Zhongguo Wu Xue

October 11, 2018October 11, 2018northernchinesemartialarts

Feng Yuxiang’s Big Knife Soldiers

One of my favorite topics of research is the history of the Da Dao Dui (Big Knife Teams) whose most famous promoter was Feng Yuxiang. Once in a while new photographs come to light as the ones in this short entry. I originally came across them in the Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo website a while back […]

August 17, 2014December 28, 2017northernchinesemartialarts

Christian Warlord and Martial Artist, Feng Yuxiang

By William A. with translations by Mei C. One of the topics I find fascinating is the practice of Chinese martial arts in the early XX Century. Specifically the Big Knife Units for which we are in the process of preparing a paper to be released in the near future. The main sponsor of such […]