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245			_aMartial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: _bA Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture _cby Hing Chao (Editor), Daniel Jaquet (Editor), Loretta Kim (Editor)
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aSingapore _bSpringer _c2023
300			_axix, 381 pages _c30 cm
490			_aMartial Studies _v2
520			_aThis open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields, this book offers a multi-perspectival and dynamic view of martial culture across time and space. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be overemphasized. Whereas a number of contributors are internationally recognized and, indeed, leading authorities in their respective fields; for example, Jeffrey Shaw has been a world-leading new media artist and scholar since the 1970s, while Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the contemporary founder of Chinese martial studies; and while there are significant overlaps in their research interests, this book brings their research within a single volume for the first time. Equally significant, the book is structured in such a way to reflect the various core aspects of martial studies, particularly in relation to the study of historic sword culture, including history, culture, philosophy, literature and knowledge transmission, material culture, as well as the technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles on martial studies, this book becomes a reference not only for scholars taking an interest in this subject, but also for historians; scholars with interest in Chinese and/or Italian history (particularly of the Medieval or early modern periods), the history of international relations in Asia / Far East; anthropologists; scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers in sword-making and/or historic metallurgy.
650			_aMartial arts _zAsia
650			_aMartial arts _zEurope
700			_aHing Chao (Editor)
700			_aDaniel Jaquet (Editor)
700			_aLoretta Kim (Editor)
843			_aPhotocopy
887			_2CamTech Library
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