Daniel Miles Amos

Hong Kong Martial Artists

Sociocultural Change from World War II to 2020

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the social, political, and cultural changes that have occurred in the practice of Chinese kungfu by martial artists in Hong Kong over the course of the last two decades of British rule and the first two decades of mainland Chinese rule.

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Produktdetails

• Martial Arts Studies
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781786615435
• ISBN-10: 1786615436
• Artikelnr.: 59984246

Autorenporträt

Daniel Miles Amos has lived in China for ten years, received three Fulbright Scholar awards; been a visiting scholar at six Chinese universities; served as an administrator with the Oregon public university system; been a faculty member at five U.S. universities, and completed a series of studies of state and national public health programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Sources of Ethnographic Data
Chapter 1. A Hong Kong Kungfu Temple Cult and Hong Kong's Economy
Chapter 2. Heroes of a Kungfu Temple Cult
Chapter 3. Triads, the Police and Kungfu Brotherhoods
Chapter 4. The Disciples of Master Chau
Chapter 5. Kungfu in Guangzhou, WW2 to 1986
Chapter 6. Guangzhou Kungfu Brotherhoods Arise During the Cultural
Revolution
Chapter 7. Personal Rebellions and Secretive Kungfu Brotherhoods
Chapter 8.The Economy, Education and the Decline of Hong Kong Folk Culture
Chapter 9. The Fate of Master Chau's Kungfu Brotherhood
Chapter 10. The Decline of Hong Kong Kungfu
References