Interviews
Interview with Jarek Szymanski – Part 6
PART 6 Beijing Years Continued Jarek: I actually made two trips to Wudang in 1991. In the summer of 1991, I went back to Poland for the summer break, but didn’t have enough money to Read more…
Interviews
Interview with Jarek Szymanski – Part 4
PART 4 Jarek: And so it came to the end of my first year in China (1991) and the summer holidays. I intended to take full advantage of the summer holidays to go around China Read more…
History
The 1929 Hangzhou Leitai Tournament
My previous translation of an article on Pei Xirong sparked my interest in the 1929 Leitai tournament in Hangzhou, which seems to have been the largest bare-hand Leitai competition in recent history. The following translation Read more…
Xingyiquan
Bagua / Xingyi master Pei Xirong
The following translation is an excerpt taken from this article . “Pei Xirong was born in 1913 in Raoyang county in Hebei province. His father was a core member of the Yi He Tuan [1], and his Read more…
History
The Central Guoshu Institute (中央国术馆)
Ever since translating an article on the ‘1929 Hangzhou Leitai Tournament’, I have been interested in the role of the Central Guoshu Institute (‘CGI’) in the spread of traditional Chinese martial arts in the first Read more…