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Watching Your Back - Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine (Paperback)
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Watching Your Back - Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine (Paperback)
Series: Latitude 20 Book
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The term ""martial art,"" like the title, The Art of War, has a
dissonant ring. To associate art, that sublime expression of the
human spirit, with the enterprise of maiming and killing seems
almost profane. Similarly, the martial arts have long been
associated with traditional medicine. But, how can the art of
healing ally itself with the art of killing? Watching Your Back
applies Daoist notions of wellness and survival to reconcile these
apparent paradoxes and unveil the origins and rationale of the
unexplored symbiosis of Chinese medicine and the martial arts. It
discusses the applications of Daoist philosophy and its
practitioners, explains how creative arts are simultaneously
conserved and advanced within a traditional Chinese lineage, and
clarifies the differences between the separate, but parallel,
martial and military disciplines. Drawing from history, philosophy,
medicine, linguistics, and the realities of combat, Dr. Schmieg
convincingly describes how early proponents of Daoism responded to
sociopolitical events in China to shape a unique martial arts
tradition and how this ancient system evolved into modern combat
forms. Throughout he makes ample use of entertaining anecdotes
taken from his years of study under a Daoist physician-scholar and
""old school"" boxer. Written with both the layperson and scholar
in mind, Watching Your Back examines the full spectrum of the
martial arts while demystifying its philosophy and debunking its
myths, and thus brilliantly reveals the true majesty of the ancient
Chinese art of selfdefense.
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