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Belarusian Hercules
This book contains two novellas: "The Hercules of Belarus" and "Maitreya, the Messiah". "The White Russian Hercules": Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong, Sun Lutang... The older generation of martial artists became famous because they competed with foreigners; today's martial arts movies are so popular because Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Zhao Wenzhuo and Wu Jing all fight foreigners in their movies. "The Belarusian Hercules" begins with the story of the Tianjin Wushu Organiza
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Samurai Society: Year of Jihai Revised Edition
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Li Cunyi, the first generation master of Xingyiquan, did three things: merged Shanxi and Hebei Xingyi into one sect; merged Xingyiquan and Baguazhang into one school; founded the "Chinese Warrior Association" and merged the northern martial arts. Li Cunyi and Cheng Tinghua are good friends, and Cheng Tinghua is a master of Baguazhang. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, the two of them were in their fiftie
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Two Hearts of the Earth
In 1911, the Revolution of 1911 broke out, and the Qing emperor abdicated the next year. In 1917, a young man who guarded the tomb was entrusted to come to the emperor and protect him with secret methods for ten years. At this time, the royal family is still there, and there are still actors singing their voices at the opening of big plays in the Forbidden City. It seems to be a peaceful scene. However, the current situation is turbulent. How can the center of the whirlpool be spared? Powerful m
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Guoshu Museum
The story tells that in the 1930s, the Guoshu Museum in Shanghai was very famous. Its founder, Zhou Cunyi, had no rivals in the martial arts and was very prosperous. Later, the Guoshu Museum closed down due to lack of funds. Zhou Cunyi's personal disciple, the second-generation curator's fifteenth brother, and "my" second grandfather, was a martial arts master, but he was down and out in life and was despised by others. Regardless of my family's objections, I practiced Xingyi Quan next to my sec
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