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Chinese Boxing
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Robert W. Smith
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-26 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books

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Distilling the martial art known in the West as kung fu, Robert Smith presents Chinese boxing (ch’uan shu) as an art “that combines the hardness of a wall a
Pa Kua
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Robert W. Smith
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-12 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books

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Pa Kua is a vigorous martial arts discipline that hones reflexes and cultivates the understanding of one’s body. One of the three orthodox “internal” styl
Hsing-I
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Robert W. Smith
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-01 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books

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Harmoniously merging the mind and the body, Hsing-I Ch'uan is simultaneously one of the most simple and most complex of the Chinese martial arts. The five forms
Pa-kua
Language: en
Pages: 104
Authors: Robert W. Smith
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-07-15 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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This book outlines the history and techniques of Pa-kua—a style of boxing based on the eight (pa) trigrams (kua) of the I Ching. This martial arts guide gives
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: David J. Silbey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-27 - Publisher: Hill and Wang

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A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked i