This is a comprehensive introduction to this popular northern style of Chinese Kuoshu. Grandmaster Huang, Chien-Liang, 64th generation Grandmaster of Tien Shan Pai, provides details about the system s history, characteristics, philosophy, and technique. Through the use of detailed explanations, multiple-angle photographs, and authentic primary sources, Tien Shan Pai's vast array of skills is presented, including: Basic stance training within the context of Tien Shan Pai.Warm-up exercises and kicks to promote flexibility, increased circulation, and healthy joints. Detailed instruction of Mei Hua Quan, one of Tien Shan Pai s signature forms. An overview of Tien Shan Pai s fighting techniques as taught by 63rd generation Supreme Master Wang, Chueh-Jen, "Double Broadsword King" of China. Power training for martial applications. Qin Na techniques and applications for self-defense. Written as a collective preliminary text, Introduction to Tien Shan Pai provides valuable insights for every reader, whether a beginner or an accomplished practitioner.

Do you know your ashiwaza from your elbow strike? Find out with The Way of the Warrior, which features every major style of martial art in existence, bringing ancient and modern arts together in one complete work of reference. This comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia covers a huge range of martial arts, from the ancient and renowned styles of China’s Shaolin Temple to the lesser-known styles of Africa’s indigenous tribes. It looks at the history, philosophy, guiding principles, key moves, weaponry, founding members, and famous exponents of individual arts, as well as highlighting unbelievable feats, such as drilling wood with a finger or deflecting swords with the abdomen. Specially commissioned photo-narrative and first-person features trace the daily training schedules of key exponents, providing human-level insights into ways of life and often complex and mystical disciplines.

König und Gefolgschaft im Sasanidenreich : zum Verhältnis zwischen Monarch und imperialer Elite im spätantiken Persien / Henning Börm -- Imperiale Eliten um Justinian / Hartmut Leppin -- Formen der Herrschaftsorganisation in poströmischen regna des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts : die Königreiche Geiserichs in Africa und Theoderichs in Italien / Guido M. Berndt -- Central peripheries : empires and elites across Byzantine and Arab frontiers in comparison (700-900 CE) / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller -- Educating the Christian elite in Umayyad Cördoba / Ann Christys -- Political and civilian elites in Mamluk Palestine (1260-1516) : some preliminary comments / Reuven Amitai -- Imperial rulers and regional elites in early Medieval Central India (8th to 13th centuries) / Annette Schmiedchen -- Imperial elites, bureaucracy, and the transformation of the geography of power in Tang-Song China / Nicolas Tackett -- Integration durch Kommunikation : ein Versuch über Herrscher, missi und Kapitularien im Karolingerreich / Steffen Patzold -- Italienische Bischöfe und ostfränkisch-deutsche Kaiser : ein exzentrischer Blick auf das Imperium der Ottonen und Salier / Christoph Dartmann -- Die den Erdkreis tragen... : Fürstliche Eliten im Imperium der Staufer / Jan Keupp -- Ererbte und erheiratete Herrschaft : die Einbeziehung von Eliten in der Normandie und in Aquitanien unter Heinrich II. von England / Alheydis Plassmann -- Eliten am päpstlichen Hof zwischen dem Reformpapsttum und Bonifaz VIII : Kardinäle und päpstliche Kapläne als Legaten im Rahmen der päpstlichen Ordnung / Jochen Johrendt

This introductory volume proposes and justifies a phytogeographic division of Central Asia. The regions covered are: Altai, Khangai, Kentei Ranges in the north, Greater Khingan Range in the east, Pamir in the west, the Great Wall of China in the south-east and the Himalayas in the south. A taxonomic treatment of ferns occurring in this territory, as well as bibliographic material on the flora and vegetation of Central Asia are presented.

By the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese culture had fallen into a stasis, and intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was an exciting musical genre that C. C. Liu terms "new music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, "new music" reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European styles. Liu traces the genesis and development of "new music" throughout the twentieth century, deftly examining the social and political forces that shaped "new music" and its uses by political activists and the government.

"There are 1195 species of birds belonging to 88 families occurring in China, but until now no one volume in English has described them all. Intended for use as a field guide as well as a descriptive catalog,this volume offers an account for each species with emphasis on diagnostic field characters."--back cover.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.