The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts

Judkins, Benjamin N. and Jon Nielson. The creation of wing chun : a social history of the southern Chinese martial arts. New York : SUNY press, 2015. 364 p. ISBN : 978-1-4384-5693-5 (relié)/ISBN : 978-1-4384-5694-2 (broché) 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, ..