edededed wrote: (Incidentally, Matsuda Ryuichi's name seems to cause CMA people in Japan to laugh for some reason, but I hope that he was a good researcher at least!)
edededed wrote:My guess is that his CMA skill was low (or so the perception is). But part was due to the times - back then Japanese could only visit Taiwan (and later China) for short periods of time, so he would go and learn a style for a month, and then come back and write a book (or so people say).
edededed wrote:I do think that he raised a lot of interest about CMA, though, and was one of the trailblazers in that sense (visiting China, etc.). He did it the Japan-way - i.e. through manga (comics), where he authored a pseudo-biographical story called Kenji, which was very popular for the time. I think he was Su Yuzhang's first disciple (well, one of the 1st batch), and thus was a part of getting baji, etc. famous. He definitely loved the CMA!
edededed wrote:I wouldn't read too deeply into it - it just means that his reception in Japan is divided.
Yeung wrote:I searched 康戈武 in Google Scholar, and find 221 articles related to him (Kāng gēwu) but no such book is found in Chinese. Is this book written by him in English?
In any case, the Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 771 to 476 BC. The Ancient Classics of China only dated back to Western Zhou period (1046 – 771 BC), and the most important work is the Book of Changes with the Yin Yang binary system that changes almost everything including martial arts, such as passive and active muscle actions.
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