Boxer Zhang Songxi and the Origins of the Internal-External School Concept

Zhang Songxi was so highly respected for his boxing skills that the emperor’s grand secretary, Shen Yiguan (1531–1616), was inspired to write the Biography of Boxer Zhang Songxi. Later the historian Huang Zongxi (1610–1695) wrote an epitaph for a resistance fighter named Wang Zhengnan. In the biogra...

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Main Authors: Marnix Wells, Stanley E. Henning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de León 2012-05-01
Series:Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas
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Online Access:http://revpubli.unileon.es/ojs/index.php/artesmarciales/article/view/5