The dance drama, Wing Chun, features five types of Chinese kung fu, such as wing chun, baguazhang, or eight fixed palms, and tai chi. It will tour around the country this year, aiming to popularize ...

One of the most successful and best-selling Chinese dance dramas in 2022 was Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, which was inspired by the classic artwork A Panorama of Rivers ...

Although it’s common in English to refer to Chinese martial arts as “kung fu”, the term is actually derived from the Chinese phrase gong fu, which can simply mean “work that takes time” – so even ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the ...

Fighters aren’t usually the blushing type. But Xu Xiaodong can’t hide his embarrassment when asked about his latest battle scar, a three-inch crimson railroad track that snakes over his right eyebrow.