Inventing Kung Fu

Judkins, Benjamin N.

doi:10.18573/j.2014.10272

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“…Neither 'martial arts' nor 'kung fu' have one stable representational form (Hunt 2003;Judkins 2014). Each contains many variants and styles, far too numerous to describe here.…”

Section: Martial Adsmentioning

confidence: 97%

From Chop Suey to Chop-Socky: The Construction of Chineseness in British Television Adverts

Bowman

2020

JOMEC Journal

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Edward Said's theory of orientalism proposes that Western European culture has overwhelmingly tended to (mis)represent non-European cultures, societies, regions, and ethnic groups via mythic, romantic, simplistic and simplifying sets of binaries. This article asks whether orientalism remains present or active within contemporary media, by analysing the representation of 'Chineseness' in British television adverts between 1955 and 2018. It argues that a predictable, recurring, limited set of aural, visual and narrative clichés and stereotypes have functioned-and continue to function-as the principal resources to evoke 'Chineseness' in British television adverts. The analysis suggests that caricatures, clichés and stereotypes of China, Chinese people, locations, artifacts and phenomena are so common that there can be said to be a glaring seam of unacknowledged, uninterrogated orientalism functioning to maintain a kind of 'invisible' racism in British advertising.

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“…Neither 'martial arts' nor 'kung fu' have one stable representational form (Hunt 2003;Judkins 2014). Each contains many variants and styles, far too numerous to describe here.…”

Section: Martial Adsmentioning

confidence: 97%

From Chop Suey to Chop-Socky: The Construction of Chineseness in British Television Adverts

Bowman

2020

JOMEC Journal

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“…Já kung fu é a latinização do termo 功夫gōngfu, expressão de uso amplo na China, que significa habilidade ou atitude correta. Conforme Judkins (2014), gōngfu se tornou "sinônimo" de Wǔshù especialmente no sudeste da China. O fato de estas artes marciais terem se popularizado a partir da segunda metade do séc.…”

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Humanidade e animalidade nas artes marciais chinesas

Almeida

2022

Campos - Revista de Antropologia

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O que é aprender com os animais nas artes marciais chinesas? Qual o status da relação humanidade/animalidade nos cosmos chinês? Para responder estas questões, divido este ensaio em três partes. Primeiro, especifico o problema de investigação a partir de situações como aprendiz de kung fu Garra de Águia e de notas de minha etnografia da performance do Chen taijiquan. Segundo, abordo o problema da humanidade/animalidade na perspectiva de Tim Ingold para investigar como (e se) opera tal distinção na cosmologia correlativa chinesa, como apresentada por Anne Cheng. Terceiro, para elucidar o caráter da animalidade no aprendizado de arte marcial, conecto o debate de Ingold com a questão dos modos de conhecimento e da cosmotécnica na filosofia de Yuk Hui. Em conclusão, argumento que os padrões animais na arte marcial chinesa não são imitativos, mas sim emulativos dos mesmos princípios que operam o cosmos chinês, numa via de integração.

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“…Kung fu refers to mastering a skill, in this case a 'profound notion referring to moral edification obtained through long-standing wushu training' [Zhang 2014: 156], which is nowadays used as a synonym for traditional wushu. However, Judkins [2014] has pointed out that 'kung fu' on the contrary holds an important meaning in terms of its regional historical and cultural uses, and sometimes traditional kung fu is strongly connected with ideas of its richness and opacity.…”

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Psychological Collectivism in Traditional Martial Arts

Partikova

2019

Martial Arts Studies

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Psychological collectivism, traditional martial arts, kung fu, wushu, kung fu family, membership Veronika Partikova is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sport and Physical Education at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her focus is traditional wushu (kung fu), in which she researches psychological collectivism and mental toughness and compares traditional with modern wushu. This paper offers a new perspective for viewing traditional martial arts in terms of psychology. It argues that 'traditional' martial arts offer physical skills, moral codes, rituals, roles, and hierarchical relationships which, taken together, creates the perfect environment for psychological collectivism. Psychological collectivism focuses on individuals and their abilities to accept the norms of an in-group, understand hierarchy, and feel interdependence or the common faith of the group. First, this paper introduces the theory of psychological collectivism and connects it with traditional martial arts known as wushu or kung fu. It argues that traditional Asian martial arts create situations strong enough to activate collectivistic attributes of self and suggests that practitioners' mind-sets can be different within and outside of the training environment. This kind of collectivistic interaction may provide one explanation for how non-Asian practitioners function in such training environments and how the traditional Asian martial arts can work as psychosocial therapies.

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Inventing Kung Fu

Cited by 8 publications

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From Chop Suey to Chop-Socky: The Construction of Chineseness in British Television Adverts

From Chop Suey to Chop-Socky: The Construction of Chineseness in British Television Adverts

Humanidade e animalidade nas artes marciais chinesas

Psychological Collectivism in Traditional Martial Arts

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