Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940)
<p> My dissertation explores a cultural history of the body as reflected in meditative and therapeutic forms of the Chinese martial arts in nineteenth and early twentieth-century China. Precursors of the more familiar present-day <i> taijiquan</i> <b>[special characters omitt...
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University of California, Berkeley
2017
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