Martial arts in Asia : history, culture and politics
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Martial arts in Asia : history, culture and politics
(Sport in the global society, . Historical perspectives)
Routledge, 2018
- : pbk
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Description
The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their transformation from traditional to modern sports. It is also important that this book explores how Asian martial arts, including Shaolin martial arts and Taekwondo, have worked as tools for national advocate of identities among Asians in order to overcome various national hardships and to promote nationalism in the modern eras. The Asian martial arts certainly have been transformed in both nature and content into unique modern sports and they have contributed to establishing cultural homogeneity in Asia. This phenomenon can be applied to the global community.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Table of Contents
Introduction Fan Hong and Gwang Ok 1. Asian Martial Arts: The Anarchic Legacy of the War Machine Barry Allen 2. The Future of Asian Traditional Martial Arts Na YoungIl 3. Practicing Martial Arts Versus Studying Martial Arts Peter Lorge 4. Making Martial Arts History Matter Paul Bowman 5. Reconstruction of Tradition: Modernity, Tourism and Shaolin Martial Arts in the Shaolin Scenic Area, China Xiaoyan Su 6. Martial Arts and Ideology of Hwarang, the Ancient Korean Warrior Kyoungho Park and Gwang Ok 7. An Investigation into the History of the Taekwondo Uniform since the Korean Peninsula's Liberation from Japan Hyun-Bae Kim, John A. Johnson, Eun-Jae Lee and Peter Ha 8. Historical Views on the Origins of Korea's Taekwondo Cindy Park and Tae Yang Kim 9. The Role of Gukgung in the Success of Korean Archery Seokgyu Choi and Gwang Ok
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