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692 Women in the <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>: Japan<br />

China’s current physical education program, which includes standardized<br />

routines for nationwide competition. Most recently, they have participated<br />

in international martial arts tournaments, which have included contact<br />

competition.<br />

Stanley E. Henning<br />

See also Boxing, Chinese; Folklore in the <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>; Written Texts:<br />

China; Yongchun (Wing Chun)<br />

References<br />

Brownell, Susan. 1995. Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral<br />

Order of the People’s Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<br />

Dianshi Zhai Huabao (Dianshi Zhai Illustrated News). 1897.<br />

Liu Xu. 1936. Jiu Tang Shu (Old Tang History). Shanghai: Zhonghua Press.<br />

Meng Yuanlao et al. 1962. Dongjing Menghua Lu. Waisizhong. Shanghai:<br />

Zhonghua Press.<br />

Pu Songling. 1886. Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Tales from the Studio of Small<br />

Talk).<br />

Tuo Tuo. 1936. Song Shi (Song History). Shanghai: Zhonghua Press.<br />

Twitchett, Denis, and Michael Loewe. 1986. <strong>The</strong> Cambridge History of<br />

China. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<br />

Wang Genlin, ed. 1985. Sima Guang Zouyi (Sima Guang’s Memorials to the<br />

Throne). Taiyuan: Shanxi People’s Press.<br />

Xu Fang. 1985. Du Fu Shi Jinyi (A Modern Translation of Du Fu’s Poems).<br />

Beijing: Renmin Ribao, 392–399.<br />

Xu Ke. 1917. Qingbai Leiqiao (Qing Unofficial Categorized Extracts).<br />

Shanghai: Commercial Press.<br />

Zhang Jue. 1993. Wuyue Chunqiu Quanyi (Complete Translation of the<br />

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue). Guiyang: Guizhou People’s<br />

Press.<br />

Zheng Qiaosong, ed. 1975. Yongchun Xian Zhi (Yongchun County<br />

Gazetteer). 1930. Reprint, Taibei: Chengwen Press.<br />

Women in the <strong>Martial</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>: Japan<br />

Early History<br />

<strong>The</strong> battle tales of Japan, chronicles of wars in the Heian, Kamakura, and<br />

Muromachi periods, focus almost completely on the deeds of the nobility<br />

and warrior classes. <strong>The</strong>se tales, passed down by blind bards much as<br />

Homer’s Iliad was, present warriors as archetypes: the tragic Loser-Hero,<br />

the Warrior-Courtier, the Traitor, the Coward, and so on.<br />

Women’s roles in such tales are slight:<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Tragic Heroine who kills herself at the death of her husband.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Loyal Wife who is taken captive.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Stalwart Mother who grooms her son to take vengeance for his dead<br />

father.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Merciful Woman whose “weak, feminine” qualities encourage a warrior<br />

chieftain to indulge in unmanly empathy, dissuading him from killing<br />

the family of his enemy, who later grow up to kill him.

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