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A classic text treasured by martial artists for over twenty years, Karates History & Traditions was long recognized as the most authoritative source on martial arts history and technique. Now Bruce Haines, historian and martial artist, has updated this rich source to reflect changes that have taken place in the last two decades.
This detailed but wellrounded martial arts guide covers the history of the Asian fighting arts from antiquity to modern times, answering many of the questions currently being debated by martial artists around the world. Each chapter describes the fighting arts of masters in many areas, including:
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The bibliography is divided into the following categories: Primary Written Sources, General Written Works, Newspapers, Magazines, Interviews, Letters, Questionnaires, Theses, and Special Sources.
Primary Written Sources
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Carradine, David: Spirit of Shaolin, Boston, 1991
Cho, Hee I1: The Complete Tae Kwon Do Hyung, Los Angeles, 1984
Chun, Richard: Tae Kwon Do, Korean Art of Self Defense, Santa Clarita, 1975
Draeger, Donn F. and Robert W. Smith: Asian Fighting Arts, Tokyo, 1969
Frederic, Louis: A Dictionary of the Martial Arts, Rutland, 1991
Funakoshi, Gichin: Karate-jutsu, Tokyo, 1925
Harrison, Ernest J.: Manual of Karate, London, 1959
Inosanto, Dan, et. al.: The Filipino Martial Arts, Los Angeles, 1977
Jalmaani, Abu and Jun Garcia: Arnis, Filipino Art of Stick Fighting, Stockton, 1976
Kent, Chris and Tim Tackett: Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do: The Textbook, Los Angeles, 1988
Konishi, Yasuhiro: Karate-do Nyumon, Tokyo, 1958
_______: Karate Nyumon, Tokyo, 1958
_______: Yasashii Karate no Narai Kata, Tokyo, 1957
Lee, Linda and Tom Bleecker: The Bruce Lee Story, Burbank, 1989
Mitchell, David: Official WTF Taekwondo, London, 1986 Mitose, James M.: What Is Self-Defense?, Honolulu, 1953
Nishiyama, Hidetaka and Richard Brown: Karate, the Art of Empty Hand Fighting, Tokyo, 1960
Norris, Chuck &Joe Hyams: The Secret of Inner StrengthMy Story, Boston, 1988
Oya, Reikichi: Karate no Narai Kata, Tokyo, 1958
Oyama, Masatatsu: What Is Karate?, Tokyo, 1958
_______: What Is Karate? (revised edition), Tokyo, 1959
Parulski, George R., et. al.: Karate's Modern Masters, Chicago, 1985
Presas, Remy: Modern Arnis, The Filipino Art of Stick Fighting , Burbank, 1983
Pu Chen-chie: Kuo Chih Jien Luen , Shanghai, 1936
Santos, Neofito: Arnis, the Figure 8 System, Stockton, 1977
Spear, Robert K: Hapkido, the Integrated Fighting Art, Burbank, 1988
Toyama, Hirokata: Karate-do, Tokyo, 1958
Yamada, Yoshimitsu: Aikido Complete, New York, 1969
Yashiro, Yukitake: Kyoku Ikyohan Karate, Tokyo, 1958
General Written Works
Barth, Gunther: Bitter Strength, A History of the Chinese in the United States,
1850-1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964 Blakney, R. B.: Tao Te Ching (translation from the Chinese), New York, 1955
Bong-Youn Choy: Korea: A History, Tokyo, 1971 Borton, Hugh: Japan, New York, 1950
Burney, David, et. al.: America, A Portrait in History, Englewood Cliffs, 1974
Buss, Claude A.: The Far East, New York, 1960
Ch'en, Kenneth: Buddhism in China, Princeton, 1964
Chou Hsiang-kuang: A History of Chinese Buddhism, Allahabad, India, 1955
_______: Dhyana Buddhism, Its History Teaching, Allahabad, 1960
Conze, Edward: Buddhism, Oxford, 1957
Creel, H. G.: Chinese Thought, from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung, New York, 1953
Deering's Penal Code, San Francisco, 1992
Dumoulin, Heinrich: A History of Zen Buddhism, New York, 1963
_______: The Development of Zen After the Sixth Patriarch in the Light of
Mumonkan, New York, 1953
Eberhard, Wolfram: History of China, Berkeley, 1956
Fa Hua San Ch'ing, Shanghai, 1936
Fang, Chao-ying (ed.): Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (3 vols.), Washington, D.C., 1943
Fitzgerald, C. P.: China, A Short Cultural History (third edition), New York, 1965
Glick, Carl and Hong Sheng-Hwa: Swords of Silence: Chinese Secret Societies
Past and Present, New York, 1947
Goodrich, L. Carrington: A Short History of the Chinese People (third edition), New York, 1959 Goshal, Kumar: People of India, New York, 1944 Hall, D. G. E.: A History of South-East Asia, London, 1960 Harrison, Ernest J.: The Fighting Spirit of Japan, London, 1913 Heibonsha: Daijiten (26 vols.), Tokyo, 1932
Huard, Pierre and Ming Wong: La Medecine Chinoise Au Cours Des Siecles, Paris, 1959
Inouye, Kenkai: Hokkekyo Kowa, Tokyo, 1939
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