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162 “Hard” Chinese <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />

rea and Japan. A director (kwang jang nin) attends to the managing affairs<br />

of the school, while an instructor (sabunim) oversees regular instruction.<br />

Nearly all Hapkidô organizations have adopted a hierarchy of ascending<br />

student (guep) ranks numbering ten through one and usually assigned a<br />

belt color indicative of rank. Individuals committed to continued study, following<br />

completion of the student ranks, are assigned a rank of one through<br />

seven indicating various levels of competence and designated by a black<br />

belt. Ranks eight, nine, and ten are essentially administrative positions.<br />

Consistent with the use of a Confucian educational model, criteria for advancement,<br />

testing policies, certification, and licensing vary greatly from<br />

organization to organization and are regularly a source of negotiation and<br />

discussion in the Hapkidô community regarding significance and relative<br />

merit.<br />

Bruce Sims<br />

See also Aikidô; Korea; Taekwondo; T’aek’kyŏn<br />

References<br />

Kim Sang H. 2000. <strong>The</strong> Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />

of Ancient Korea. Hartford, CT: Turtle Press.<br />

Kimm He-Young. 1991. Hapkidô. Baton Rouge, LA: Andrew Jackson<br />

College Press.<br />

Lee Joo Bang. 1979. <strong>The</strong> Ancient <strong>Martial</strong> Art of HwaRangDo. 3 vols.<br />

Burbank, CA: Ohara Publications.<br />

Lee Ki-Baik. 1984. A New History of Korea. Cambridge: Harvard<br />

University Press.<br />

Lee Peter H. 1993. Sources of Korean Civilization. 2 vols. New York:<br />

Columbia University Press.<br />

Myung Kwang-Shik. 1982. Hapkidô: Ancient Art of Masters. Seoul: <strong>World</strong><br />

Hapkidô Federation.<br />

Omiya Shiro. 1992. <strong>The</strong> Hidden Roots of Aikido. Tokyo: Kodansha<br />

International.<br />

Suh In Hyuk. 1987. Kuk Sool. Privately published.<br />

Yang Jwing-ming. 1992. Analysis of Shaolin Ch’in na. Jamaica Plain, MA:<br />

YMAA Publication Center.<br />

“Hard” Chinese <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />

See External vs. Internal Chinese <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong><br />

Heralds<br />

Like most other warrior orders known to history, the knightly nobility of<br />

Latin Christendom that flourished from the later twelfth to the early seventeenth<br />

centuries developed a distinctive ideology reflective of its peculiar<br />

nature and traditions, and largely embodied in the cycles of quasi-historical<br />

romances centered on the courts of Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, or<br />

(most commonly) Arthur of Britain. Contemporaries usually referred to

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