: any of various Chinese martial arts and related disciplines that are practiced especially for self-defense, exercise, and spiritual growth
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The year is 1920, and the city of Tianjin — at the forefront of China’s push toward Westernization in the wake of the Eight-Nation Alliance — is policed by a network of kung fu academies that attend to any civil disorder within 100 yards of their doors.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
Hong Kong martial arts cinema legend Sammo Hung brought jiangshi to the screen with 1980’s Encounters of the Spooky Kind, a silly kung fu horror-comedy that features a hilarious set piece as Hung comically evades a hopping corpse’s herky-jerky attacks.
—James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.
—Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
Now, that’s a paraphrasing of the story of how Shaolin kung fu started.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2024
Hong Kong martial arts cinema legend Sammo Hung brought jiangshi to the screen with 1980’s Encounters of the Spooky Kind, a silly kung fu horror-comedy that features a hilarious set piece as Hung comically evades a hopping corpse’s herky-jerky attacks.
—James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.
—Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
Now, that’s a paraphrasing of the story of how Shaolin kung fu started.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Kung fu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kung%20fu. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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