For a very good, well researched read regarding the origins of Chinese martial arts, which explains in detail several misconceptions and mistranslations, check out the following article, "Academia Encounters with the Chinese Martial Arts", Article by Stanley Henning...

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/cri/6.2henning.pdf

The article is in Adobe format (not Microsoft Word), so you might have to download the Adobe software if you don't already have it set up on your pc. Enjoy!

Wow, that is deffinatly a very long article!
:D

I'm only half-way through it but it is quite interesting, albeit in an academic sense.

interesting article. what do you think?

The article is no longer at the referenced link...:(

weird... it worked for me earlier...


does anyone have any other links?

Not working for me either

7sm

Use this link.

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/cri/

The article is under features part way down the page.


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The last link works for me.