主办单位:成都体育学院
ISSN 1001-9154 CN 51-1097/G8

Journal of Chengdu Sport University ›› 2021, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 55-61.doi: 10.15942/j.jcsu.2021.06.010

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Research on the Group Image of Martial Artists in Modern China

LI Yuan1, HUANG Xianxiu1, LIANG Qinchao2   

  1. 1. School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan Shandong 250100;
    2. School of Physical Education, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu Sichuan 611130
  • Received:2020-01-16 Revised:2021-04-21 Online:2021-11-15 Published:2021-11-26

Abstract: This article analyzes the group image of martial artists in modern China through the methods of literature and historical research. Modern Chinese martial artist group refers to an organic group of martial artists who had high attainments and important influence both in martial arts skills and knowledge in the specific historical period of modern China; this group of martial artists had similar grassroots life experience, their group distributions and practice had distinct regional characteristics. In the narratives of the two historical themes of advocating martial arts to save the country and saving the nation from subjugation and survival, the martial artist group cast a leading image of the practitioners who awakened the national awareness; in competition with foreign warriors, the emergence of the martial artist group subverted the stereotyped image of "Sick Man of East Asia"; their appearance in schools and clubs constructed the group image as the disseminators of martial arts culture; as founders of martial arts factions and schools, this martial arts group shaped the group image in the production, inheritance and development of traditional martial arts.

Key words: martial arts image, modern China, group of martial artists, group image

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