Grandmasters of China Volume One - Traditional Chinese Kung Fu Series (Hardcover)

China National Kungfu SurveyTM - Direct from Beijing

3 Year National Survey of all China 8,000 Researchers / Field Workers 15,000 Kungfu Masters Interviewed Encyclopedia Compilation / Over 400 Hours of Video

In this Tradtional Chinese Kungfu SeriesTM 12 Volumes in Print Over 100 Hours of Video on DVD and Download

About this Volume One:

Coffee Table Color Pictorial of Traditional Chinese Kungfu since 1771 Free Video Download - see page 101 Origins, History, Practices

In this Volume One:

Six Styles, 13 Grandmasters and More

From 1983-1986, some 8,000 researchers travelled to the remotest corners of vast China and called on 15,000 old martial art masters. The project had no parallel in the history of China's sports.

It was on the basis of these extensive investigations that an encyclopaedia of some 130 schools of Chinese martial arts was compiled and an archive of over 400 hours of videotape were collected.

A historical treasure of tradtional Chinese kungfu since 1771. In this Volume: Origins, history, and practices of Tai Chi (Chen and Yang), Plum Blossom Boxing, Zi Ran Men the Natural Boxing, Dacheng Boxing, Ba Gua Eight Diagrams Boxing, and more.

More than 125 historical full color, full page photographs including the founders and successors: Li Ziming, Chen Fake, Chen Xiaowang, Yang Luchan, Yang Chengfu, Yang Zhenduo, Dong Haichuan, Du Xinwu, Wan Laisheng, Han Qichang, Han Jianzhong, Wang Xiangzhai, Wang Xuanjie, Tian Hui and others.

From the Martial Arts of China Magazine Archives and Publisher Roger D. Hagood.

Discover more about the China National Kungfu Survey in this Volume of Grandmasters of China

Receive your Free Video Download and the complete China National Kungfu Survey video list - see page 101 of this book

Hardcover, full color, 125+ photographs, 122 pages.

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General

Imprint:	Southern Mantis Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	December 2012
Editors:	Charles Alan Clemens • Patrick M. Wright
Compiled by:	Roger D. Hagood
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	117
ISBN-13:	978-0-9857240-5-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	0-9857240-5-6
Barcode:	9780985724054

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