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26 Bandô<br />

———. 1984. <strong>The</strong> Master’s Manual of Pa Kua Chang. Pacific Grove, CA:<br />

Ching Lung <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Association.<br />

Johnson, Jerry, and Joseph Crandall. 1986. Classical Pa Kua Chang Fighting<br />

Systems and Weapons. Pinole, CA: Smiling Tiger <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>.<br />

Liang, Shou-Yu, Yang Jwing-Ming, and Wu Wen-ching. 1994. Emei<br />

Baguazhang: <strong>The</strong>ory and Applications. Jamaica Plains, MA: Yang<br />

<strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Association.<br />

Smith, Robert W. 1967. Pa Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness and Defense.<br />

Tokyo: Kodansha International.<br />

Sugarwara, Tetsutaka, and Xing Lujian. 1996. Aikido and Chinese <strong>Martial</strong><br />

<strong>Arts</strong>. 2 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha International.<br />

Bandô<br />

See Thaing<br />

Banshay<br />

See Thaing<br />

Bersilat<br />

See Silat<br />

Boxing, Chinese<br />

Chinese boxing is a versatile form of bare-handed fighting, variously combining<br />

strikes with the hands, kicks and other leg maneuvers, grappling,<br />

holds, and throws. Piecing together the scattered passages in ancient writings,<br />

one can reasonably conclude that the origins of Chinese boxing go<br />

back as far as the Xia dynasty (twenty-first to sixteenth centuries B.C.),<br />

making it one of the oldest elements of Chinese culture still practiced.<br />

Originally called bo (striking), it was a skill practiced among China’s<br />

early ruling classes, when strength and bravery were characteristics admired<br />

in leaders. <strong>The</strong>re are even references to some of these leaders grappling<br />

with wild beasts. <strong>The</strong>re are also descriptions of individuals skilled in<br />

empty-handed techniques against edged weapons. Thus, boxing appears<br />

generally to have been considered a life-and-death combat skill that supplemented<br />

weapons, although there are indications that it was treated as a<br />

sport in some circumstances.<br />

However, about 209 B.C., the first emperor of Qin designated<br />

wrestling as the official ceremonial military sport. <strong>The</strong>n, for the first time,<br />

commentaries in the Han History Bibliographies (ca. A.D. 90) clearly distinguish<br />

between boxing and wrestling. This work lists six chapters (no<br />

longer extant) on boxing, shoubo (hand striking) as it was then called. Boxing<br />

is described under the subcategory “military skills,” alongside archery,

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