Open AccessLa Espada Recta Qingping. ¿El último sistema chino de espada vivo?
Author(s) -
Stephan Berwick
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
revista de artes marciales asiáticas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-0747
pISSN - 1885-8643
DOI - 10.18002/rama.v4i2.213
Subject(s) - sword , art , china , humanities , art history , literature , history , computer science , archaeology , world wide web
The following examination of classical Chinese straight sword (jian) details the very rare Qingping straight sword system. The study meshes Chinese- and English-sourced research with a revealing interview (conducted by America’s senior Qingping disciples, Reza Momenan and Hon Lee) with Lu Junhai—the grandmaster of this unique sword system. The author presents Qingping system as perhaps the only known, complete Chinese sword system surviving from China’s pre-Rebulican era (1911-1949).