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Jared Miracle teaches at Ocean University of China in Qingdao. In addition to scholarly publications, he is also a frequent contributor to popular blogs and other media outlets.
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 14
- Popularité
- #739,559
- Évaluation
- 2.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 2
In this book, there is history of martial arts, tidbits of what people think martial arts is and the history of fighting in general. I like how the author explains what some foreign words mean and how it builds upon that particular martial arts.
For example: Bushido, Jared explains the word, how the word is viewed in present time (from the movie The Last Samurai for example), how it the original word actually should be used in a cultural sense,etc.
One thing about this that I didn't like too much was that it focuses alot about the Japanese martial art; not saying that they did not contribute much to America, in fact it was presented very well in the book, but the cover of the book is kung-fu, so I expected a bit more about kung-fu and the chinese influence instead.… (plus d'informations)