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Pages: 366
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-16 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance. This book explores the soci
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-08 - Publisher: Blue Snake Books
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