Tang Hao, Gu Liuxin, Japan

[jbb73]

Hi there!

1) Does somebody maybe has further information on the abidance of Gu Liuxin in Japan? I only heard he was there, but no idea when exactly, in what function and for which purpose.
(Details on the time of Tang Hao in Japan would also be nice, but are secondary important. I have a small knowledge of that from the passage in the Nihon budô taikei concerning him.)

2) Does somebody know, whether there are translations of texts or articles of Tang Hao or Gu Liuxin into Japanese?

Thanks a lot!

[Yeung]

顾留馨（1908～1990）上海市人，著名武术家。11岁开始习武，对杨式和陈式太极拳及推手有很深造诣。曾就读于上海南洋高级商校。民国16年（1927）毕业于上海文治大学国文系。民国23年加入共青团，后加入中国共产党，以武术为掩护，长期在白区从事地下工作。建国后曾任黄浦区第一任区长。1959年受国家体委委托，赴河内任胡志明的太极拳教师。回国后应邀到中南海、北戴河和广州等地指导部分党中央和国家领导人练习太极拳。1956至1966年任上海体育宫主任，1979年任上海体育科研所副所长。1977年和1980年两次东渡日本讲学、授拳。1979年当选为中国武术协会委员和上海市武术协会主席，后应聘为上海体育学院兼职教授。

[nicklinjm]

Google Translate version:

Gu Liuxin (1908-1990) Shanghai native, famous martial artist. At the age of 11, he began to practice martial arts. He was well versed in Yang style and Chen style Taijiquan and push hands. He studied at Shanghai Nanyang Senior Business School. In the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Culture of Shanghai Wenzhi University. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, he joined the Communist Youth League and joined the Communist Party of China. He used martial arts as a cover and worked in the underground Communist movement for a long time. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the first district head of Huangpu District. In 1959, he was entrusted by the State Sports Commission to go to Hanoi to serve as a Tai Chi teacher in Ho Chi Minh. After returning to China, he was invited to Zhongnanhai, Beidaihe and Guangzhou to teach some state leaders to practice Taijiquan. From 1956 to 1966, he served as director of the Shanghai Sports Centre. In 1979, he served as deputy director of the Shanghai Sports Research Institute. In 1977 and 1980, he twice went to Japan to give lectures and give lectures. In 1979, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Wushu Association and the chairman of the Shanghai Wushu Association. He was later employed as an adjunct professor at the Shanghai Sports Institute.

[jbb73]

"In 1977 and 1980, he twice went to Japan to give lectures and give lectures."

Okay, thanks. So that's a first step at all

[Yeung]

Tang Hao
唐豪（1896年12月－1959年），字范生，號棣華，江蘇吳縣人（今苏州市吴中区）中国武术家和律师。

生平
因改朝換代及家貧關係，青少年时失學到上海找尋生計，於是有機會在上海精武体操会拜山东名师刘震南学练潭腿及六合拳術，後習太極拳等。喜研究有关的武术史料。曾任私立学校的校长。他亦是一位律师，文史专家，又是武术家。

1927年曾因嫌疑參加共產黨而被捕，幸得朱國福出面保釋出來，後赴日本學習政治、柔道和劍道，歸國後應張之江將軍之邀出任中央國術館編審處處長。

“国立南京中央國術館”于1928年成立之后，馆长张之江，聘唐为首任編審處處長時，開始撰寫文章，大力提倡武術科學化，排斥花巧的流行套路，主張發展实用樸實的武術；另一方面批判武術界宗派門戶之見和附會神怪、荒誕不經的舊思想。唐豪提昇了中國武術史研究在學術界的地位，成為中國武術史考證之重要的人物。曾发表《少林武当考》，通過大量事实考据作出论证，指出少林武术非达摩所创；他的《中国武艺图籍考》及其《补篇》以及中华人民共和国成立后发表的《中国民族体育图籍考》等著作，成为武术目录学和文献学的奠基石。

1932年1月，聯同陳家太極拳手陳子明回陳家溝調查太極拳歷史。
1936年，在上海七君子政治案件中，顾留馨被扣留，唐豪任被告人等之律師，勝訴，顾留馨等被釋放。
1937年1月，唐豪去苏州與顾留馨（當年29岁），为沈钧儒、李公仆、章乃器、王造时、沙千里诸君前演习劈刺，宣传在战争中的实用价值。
1937年在上海中國武術學會發行著作《行健齋隨筆》。全書共錄有「元清二代禁漢人藏執兵器與服習武藝」、「顧亭林少林僧兵與少林寺詩」、「擒拏手」、「技擊家之蹤躍術」、「易筋洗髓經牛李二序之偽」、「朝鮮武藝叢書」等46篇短文，把關於武藝上種種荒誕、邪魔、神秘的謬說，作一清算；同時把前代所留下來的武藝史料，作一考訂整理。
1949年，中華人民共和國成立後，任華東政法委員會委員。
1955年，任國家體委顧問。之前所有著作，直至去世時都未見再版重刊。
1959年因操勞過度，病逝於北京寓所。