Chinese martial arts

film “Golden Gate Girl”. By the time he was three months old, Lee’s family moved to Hong Kong. But Bruce’s childhood in Hong Kong were surrounded by the Japanese during World War II until 1945. At the age of thirteen, Bruce was introduced to a martial arts teacher, Yip Man who taught the style of Wing Chun. In high school, he won a boxing champion. When Bruce was at the age of eighteen, he flew to San Francisco, California looking for a new life. But Lee did not stay in San Francisco too…

kinds of martial practices, bare-handed or armed, has been recorded by the historians. In the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, with the hotbed of numerous philosophical thinking competing with each other, the theories regarding physical education got polished. The physical culture got even more nutrition in Han Dynasty, but it soon appeared to polarize in the Wei,Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Unlike the Southern Dynasty…

obtaining a piece of the Chinese-market pie, we must invest the time to understand the sources of Chinese culture and not just the culture itself. Because…

Firstly, Taoism is an ancient Chinese religion which is so old that its true origin cannot be traced through written records. The practices and theory expressed in the religion has been, however, estimated to be over 4000 years old. With Taoism being officially classified as a religion in approximately 250-300 BC. In modern times the religion is ‘A way of life inspired by the course of nature; a natural wisdom and a practice aiming at uniting one with the Great Pervader or the Tao’. The modern…

In the first chapter of Professor Chang’s book Fateful Ties, Professor Chang mentions that even if most American politicians supported Chinese government’s decision of trying to block the intrusive opium trade, the Americans still joined the opium trade in order to gain interests for America itself. In addition, even though historians present America’s awe of China as preoccupation, what…

Multi-disciplinary, diverse and pervasive, Chinese culture encompasses a firm foothold in Eastern Asia. One of the most intellectual cultures in the world, this culture is responsible for major advanced technologies that took place in history as well as today. The axial rudder, the navigational compass and the heavy ploy, all responsible for the Industrial revolution, in fact were outcomes of the Chinese cultural intellectuality. This helps establish the view that Chinese culture is an…

York City is a great place to be around One reason tourists visit New York City is for its culture such as art galleries, museums, broadway, theaters, music, concert hall, zoos… Chinatown The largest Chinatown in the United States is located in New York City. Home to Chinese immigrants in New York, it becomes an important destination for tourists from all over the world. Populated with Chinese cultures, markets, stores and restaurants, the streets are always packed and crowded. The buildings…

The legend of Mulan, a brave young Chinese girl who pretends to be a man and joins the army in order to help her old father, is an example of stories of women characters that take the non-traditional role of warrior. This figure that challenges traditional role models had been a source of inspiration for many young Chinese girls. Inspired by this legend, Maxine Hong Kingston narrates the powerful memories that she recalls of growing up in a Chinese-American family. In her book The Warrior…

The concept of individual sacrifice for the greater good, ‘our land’ and community is an ideal held high in many cultures and this is no different to Chinese culture, past and present. The movie Hero displays this concept during the time in which china was a handful of separate country-states, known as ‘the warring states period’. Although there are the ideals of ‘our land’ in the film there is also the fact that community and uniting china is not an ideal that is liked by all. To display this…

influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the boxers because they performed physical that the rebels / boxers believe can make them withstand to bullets, the rebels killed chinese chritians and destroy foreign property. Even though the boxer rebellion did not really change the chinese political in a…