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Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Gangsters at the Docks

  • Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Gangsters at the Docks

  • 501 days ago
  • 14. The Gangsters at the Docks Wong Fei-hung Increases His Renown Everyone in Guangdong Province knows the name of Wong Fei-hung.  They know he once lived at Po Chi Lam, where he ran a clinic specializing in traditional Chinese medicine.  They know he opened half a dozen Hung Gar martial arts schools.  They also know he led a revolt against the Ching Dynasty and restored honor to the Shaolin [...]
Art // The POP! Logo

  • Art // The POP! Logo

  • 504 days ago
  • I've had a few people ask me about the punchingonpaper (POP!) logo and where it came from recently, so it seemed fitting to dedicate a post to that process, especially because it was such a great one. Initially, I'd heard about Jenikah and sooogoodstudios through a colleague of mine.  He said she was incredibly smart and possessed a versatile style.  He wasn't wrong. In fact, he should'v[...]
Art // The Art of Kung Fu: A Daughter's Duty

  • Art // The Art of Kung Fu: A Daughter's Duty

  • 508 days ago
  • 7. A Daughter’s Duty Wei Mulan Duels Her Father From her place at the window where she worked her loom every day, Mulan heard a clanging rise from the courtyard, and it drew her gaze away from the moving threads.  She leaned out the window, catching sight of her father teaching her brother—a boy not more than twelve—to hold a sword and swing it.  It was a pathetic display.  The boy was too fr[...]
Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Battle of Zhuolu Plains

  • Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Battle of Zhuolu Plains

  • 515 days ago
  • 4. The Battle of Zhuolu Plains Huang Di Defeats Chi You Golden Swallow’s premonition proved true: war engulfed the land, far beyond what Chi You had expected.  The God of War knew that he had tempted fate long enough.  Every warrior fought with forged iron now----it was no longer unique to his hand----and he had long dreaded that a day of reckoning would arrive, but he never dreamed it would [...]
Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Bandit-King and His Fiancé

  • Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Bandit-King and His Fiancé

  • 521 days ago
  • 12. The Bandit-King And His Fiancé Yim Wing-chun Fights for Her Freedom Yim Wing-chun was only fifteen years old when her tearful parents dragged her to the Henan Shaolin monastery to meet secretly with its Abbess and renowned kung fu master, Ng Mui, and beg her to teach the girl something—anything—that might save her life. You see, just the day before, a bandit-king named Flying Monkey ha[...]
Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Snake and The Hawk

  • Art // The Art of Kung Fu: The Snake and The Hawk

  • 530 days ago
  • 9. The Snake and the Hawk Zhang Sanfeng Creates Tai Chi Chuan In the early stages of the Sung Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng gave up a prominent magistrate’s position and left his native province of Liao Tung in Northern China in order to search for immortality.  He was a tall, robust man with a heavy beard, prone to wearing the same quilted coat and wide-brimmed straw hat regardless of the weather[...]