Introduction Friday morning posts are usually written the day before, and it just so happens that this week’s Thursday falls on Valentine’s Day. That complicates things for reasons that are both understandable and a few which are a l…
Violence and Peace: Reconsidering the Go...
What is my motivation? Connecting the dots between an individual’s intentions, their actions and subsequent systemic outcomes is more difficult than one might suspect. Just ask any social scientist. Understanding each of these catego…
Hawkins Cheung and the Making of Modern ...
Regrets As many readers will already know, Master Hawkins Cheung Hok Jin passed away on Sunday February 3rd 2019, in Los Angeles. Within the martial arts community regrets take many forms. One of my great regrets is that …
Fighting Talk: Martial Arts Discourse in...
Presentation from: https://jomec.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/jomec.186/ [06/02/2019] paper available on Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/37949259/Fighting_Talk_Martial_Arts_Discourse_in_Mainstream_Films [06/02/2019] This…
Research Note: A Visit with the Jingwu A...
At the moment I am working on a guest editorial project examining Afro-Caribbean and New World martial arts. It will pose a number of interesting questions and I hope to discuss some of these practices in greater depth. Unfortunately,… Continue Reading →
Give Me Those Old Time Kung Fu Villains
Introduction Antagonists seem to be the critical ingredient that make the martial arts possible. Yet to understand why that is the case we need to start by unpacking a few things. An immense range of activities fall within… Continue Reading →
The Research Expedition: What is the Val...
A New Hoplology Over the last few weeks I have been thinking quite a bit about what hoplology was and what it might yet become. What were the advances and shortcoming of this field’s previous incarnations, both prior to… Continue Reading →
Chinese Martial Arts in the News: Januar...
Introduction Its been over a month since our last news update, which means that there is no better time to get caught up on recent events! For new readers, this is a semi-regular feature here at Kung Fu Tea in which we… Continue Reading →
Issue 7 of Martial Arts Studies Now Avai...
We are happy to announce that the seventh issue of Martial Arts Studies is now freely available. Martial Arts Studies is the premier scholarly source for interdisciplinary work on a wide variety of topics surrounding the practice, sociology, history… Continue Reading →
Meditations on the Blade, Ultra-Modernit...
The Unexpected Giant Some of the essays at Kung Fu Tea are the result of several days of careful research and thinking. This is not going to be one of those pieces. I started out with a great… Continue Reading →