Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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Chinese and Indian Warfare: From the Classical Age to by Kaushik Roy Book 5 editions published between and in English and held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This volume examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before , both conceptually and on the battlefield. By doing this, it breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West.

War and the creation of the northern song state by Peter Allan Lorge 3 editions published in in English and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This dissertation explores the way that war formed the Northern Song state. Earlier research on the Northern Song failed to explain how and why the Northern Song empire established a peaceful border with the Liao empire to its north.

This dissertation, by means of a detailed military history of the period from , concludes that the Liao state did not intend to destroy the Song state. It was the Liao's limited military and political goals rather than the strength or weakness of the Song that created a peaceful border between the two empires. A history of Chinese martial arts: This is an engaging and readable introduction to the authentic history of Chinese martial arts.

Ajia no gunji kakumei: Heiki kara mita ajiashi by Peter Allan Lorge Book 2 editions published in in Japanese and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Asian states and empires in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Asian States and Empires is a book series that will provide detailed accounts of the history of states and empires across Asia from earliest times until the present. It aims to explain and describe the formation, maintenance and collapse of Asian states and empires, and the means by which this was accomplished, making available the history of more than half the world's population at a level of detail comparable to the history of Western polities.

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In so doing, it will demonstrate that Asian peoples and civilizations had their own histories apart from the West, and provide the basis for understanding contemporary Asia in terms of its actual histories, rather than broad generalizations informed by Western categories of knowledge. A military history of China by David Andrew Graff Book 1 edition published in in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Armed conflict has always played an important role in Chinese history.

Most of China's imperial dynasties were established as a result of success in battle, and the same may be said of the Guomindang KMT and Communist regimes in the twentieth century. This volume offers a basic introduction to the military history of China from the first millennium B.

Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Columbia mental maturity scale: The 92 pictorial and figural classification items are arranged in a series of eight overlapping scales or levels. The child takes the level indicated as appropriate for his chronological age"--Page 7. Gemeinden Lotzwyl, Bleyenbach, Langethal Langenthal, den 22ten Bruemaire im 7ten Jahr War, politics and society in early modern China by Peter Allan Lorge Book 1 edition published in in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide.

War, politics and society in early modern China, by Peter Allan Lorge Recording 1 edition published in in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide In this new take on China's early modern history, [the author] presents [an] overview of the repeated recreation of the Chinese empire through military force.

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Emphasizing the relationship between the military and politics, and China's power as an empire. Using a chronological narrative, [this book] breaks free of the dynastic boundaries that shape much scholarship in this area, focusing instead on the growing power of local elites. This power eventually led to a system of loose central control -- to the sacrifice of real, centralized power over local affairs.

Ideal for students of military and Asian studies, [this book] is essential reading for anyone interested in the military history of China.

Allan Lorge, Peter English Japanese 2 Spanish 1 German 1. This book, which opens with an intriguing account of the very first female martial artist, charts the history of combat and fighting techniques in China from the Bronze Age to the present. This broad panorama affords fascinating glimpses into the transformation of martial skills, techniques and weaponry against the background of Chinese history, the rise and fall of empires, their governments and their armies.

Quotations from literature and poetry, and the stories of individual warriors, infuse the narrative, offering personal reflections on prowess in the battlefield and techniques of engagement. This is an engaging and readable introduction to the authentic history of Chinese martial arts.

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