Kung Fu Butterfly Swords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kung Fu Butterfly Swords write by William Cheung. This book was released on 1985-03. Kung Fu Butterfly Swords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kung Fu Butterfly Swords
Kung Fu Butterfly Swords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kung Fu Butterfly Swords write by . This book was released on 1984. Kung Fu Butterfly Swords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu
Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu write by Samuel Kwok. This book was released on 2007. Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the keys to the Ip Man Wing Chun Kung Fu system are explained. The three hand sets are shown in detail, along with the application of the key movements. One of the keys to Wing Chun is laying a proper foundation. The first form Siu Lim Tao (Little Idea) is the development of that foundation. While the first form teaches the correct structure of the attacks and defensive movements, it is in Chum Kiu that the student learns to "seek the bridge" and use both hands simultaneously, such as one hand defending while the other attacks. The third form, Biu Gee (Thrusting Fingers), also known as the (First Aid) form, teaches the keys to recovery from the loss of a superior position in fighting. Biu Gee training is one of the keys to learning to focus energy into a strike. Also covered is the Chi Sao (Sticking Hands) training of Wing Chun, as well as the key principles that have made Ip Man Wing Chun one of the most famous Kung Fu systems in the world.
Tong Wars
Tong Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tong Wars write by Scott D. Seligman. This book was released on 2016-07-12. Tong Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker) Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets and meat cleavers to pistols, automatic weapons, and even bombs. Welcome to New York City’s Chinatown in 1925. The Chinese in turn-of-the-last-century New York were mostly immigrant peasants and shopkeepers who worked as laundrymen, cigar makers, and domestics. They gravitated to lower Manhattan and lived as Chinese an existence as possible, their few diversions—gambling, opium, and prostitution—available but, sadly, illegal. It didn’t take long before one resourceful merchant saw a golden opportunity to feather his nest by positioning himself squarely between the vice dens and the police charged with shutting them down. Tong Wars is historical true crime set against the perfect landscape: Tammany-era New York City. Representatives of rival tongs (secret societies) corner the various markets of sin using admirably creative strategies. The city government was already corrupt from top to bottom, so once one tong began taxing the gambling dens and paying off the authorities, a rival, jealously eyeing its lucrative franchise, co-opted a local reformist group to help eliminate it. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next thirty years. Scott D. Seligman’s account roars through three decades of turmoil, with characters ranging from gangsters and drug lords to reformers and do-gooders to judges, prosecutors, cops, and pols of every stripe and color. A true story set in Prohibition-era Manhattan a generation after Gangs of New York, but fought on the very same turf.
The Creation of Wing Chun
The Creation of Wing Chun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creation of Wing Chun write by Benjamin N. Judkins. This book was released on 2015-07-16. The Creation of Wing Chun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong's Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee's teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly visible symbol of southern Chinese identity and pride. Benjamin N. Judkins and Jon Nielson examine the emergence of Wing Chun to reveal how this body of social practices developed and why individuals continue to turn to the martial arts as they navigate the challenges of a rapidly evolving environment. After surveying the development of hand combat traditions in Guangdong Province from roughly the start of the nineteenth century until 1949, the authors turn to Wing Chun, noting its development, the changing social attitudes towards this practice over time, and its ultimate emergence as a global art form.
