Call for Papers – 9th International Martial Arts Studies Conference
For 2024, our conference is returning to its roots with an open theme at Cardiff University! We are welcoming proposals for 20-minute papers (or 3-paper panels) on any topic relevant to the...
View ArticleAdvances in Martial Arts Studies
We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 14 of Martial Arts Studies!In addition, we are very happy to let you know that Martial Arts Studies has recently been accepted by Scopus for...
View ArticleMartial Arts Studies Vol. 13 is Now Out!
We are excited to announce that the latest issue of the interdisciplinary journal Martial Arts Studies (an imprint of Cardiff University Press) is now out. As always, it brings high level scholarly...
View Article50 Years After Bruce Lee: Asian Martial Arts On-Screen and Off
Call for Papers for our 8th Annual Conference! 50 Years After Bruce Lee: Asian Martial Arts On-Screen and Off 19-21 July 2023, University of Sheffield (UK) On the 50th anniversary of Bruce Lee’s...
View ArticleWhere Martial Arts and Religion Meet: A Special Issue from Martial Arts Studies
The "Three Prayers to Buddha" section seen in the Wing Chun set Sui Lim Tao. While many modern interpretations of this art coming out of the Ip Man lineage are essentially secular in nature, the...
View ArticleTHE POLITICS OF AN OLYMPIC MEDAL
Sajad Ganjzadeh of Iran, left, is injured while competing against Tareg Hamedi of Saudi Arabia. Introduction We are very pleased to host the following essay on Karate's appearance in the Tokyo Olympics...
View ArticleSometimes a Cigar is Just a Lightsaber: Fetishism and Material Culture in...
“The lightsaber has become an important touchstone, both within the films and within our culture…They serve as a source of identification and identity. They are the ultimate commodity: a nonexistent...
View ArticleChinese Weapons and the Western Gaze
A Collection of Chinese Arms, Published in 1905, posted by Peter Dekker. Spring Cleaning I sat down this morning to work on a project looking at sword aficionados in China, their customers in the West,...
View ArticleTowards a Political Hoplology: Violence and the Construction of Identity in...
Andrea Molle. 2021. Krav Maga and the Making of Modern Israel: For Zion’s Sake. Rowman & Littlefield. 2022. $105 Hardcover, $38 Kindle. “There is also another function of violence, and it is to...
View ArticleThrough a Lens Darkly (67): Winter Training in Japanese Martial Arts
Group 1. Yonezawa Industrial School's Midwinter Training General Meeting. Winter Training In the "before times" some readers will remember that I ran a lightsaber combat club in Ithaca. To say that it...
View ArticleBerlin 1936: Chinese Martial Arts on a Global Stage
Introduction The Olympics are once again being hosted by China and the eyes of the world are on Beijing. Martial arts don't really play any role in the Winter Games, but there seems to be more...
View ArticleThe Woyao Dao and Regionalism in History and Martial Studies
LK Chen's Woyao Dao. Source: LKChensword.com Introduction A package containing two of LK Chen’s fine historical reproductions recently arrived at my door. So, of course, I find myself thinking about...
View ArticleCall For Papers: Martial Arts, Tradition and Globalisation
Photo from the Cornell Wushu Club. What are you most looking forward to as international travel normalizes? If you are anything like me it is a return to in-person Martial Arts Studies conferences! Our...
View ArticleA Conversation With Daniel Amos on Ethnography and Hong Kong’s Martial Arts
John S. S. Long training with his teacher, Wong Lei, in Hong Kong, 1960. Source: http://www.seattlekungfuclub.com/ Introduction Regular readers of this blog with be no strangers to work of Daniel Amos....
View ArticleHong Kong Martial Artists – A Review
Hong Kong Martial Artists, 2021, by Daniel Amos (Rowman&Littlefield). Daniel Miles Amos. 2021. Hong Kong Martial Artists: Sociocultural Change from World War II to 2020. Rowman & Littlefield....
View ArticleRead it Now: Martial Arts Studies, Issue 11!
We are happy to announce that the Summer 2021 issue of the interdisciplinary journal Martial Arts Studies has been released and is now available for free download. Click here to see a complete list...
View Article“Fighting Styles” or “Martial Brands”? An economic approach to understanding...
***Today's post continues our discussion of economic markets and modernity in the Chinese martial arts. This essay, first posted in May of 2013, was one of my first attempts at hashing out these...
View ArticleThe Wing Chun Jo Fen: Norms and the Creation of a Southern Chinese Martial...
***I am happy to report that I am making good progress on my current writing project. But it is still an ongoing task, and one that consumed much of my weekend. As such our post for this Monday...
View ArticleMythology of the Kukri: Sign and Symbol
Introduction: The Symbolic Language of Weapons Victor Turner, the cultural anthropologist, famously argued that all symbols are "multivocal," meaning a single symbol can take on a multiplicity of...
View ArticleThe Value of a Comparative Case: Jean-Marc de Grave discusses “The Training...
Introduction: A drift on the sea of knowledge. Let me ask you a question. Do you ever feel like you have too much to read, study or research? Are you familiar with that creeping feeling that you will...
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