Chapter 2 Setting the Stage

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Hand Combat, Identity, and Civil Society in Guangdong, 1800–1949
7. Growth and Disorder 25
8. Setting the Stage 67
9. Northern Tigers versus Southern Heroes 111
10. Conflict, Imperialism and Modernization
11. The Public Emergence of Wing Chun,1900–1949 169
12. Ip Man and the Making of a Modern Kung Fu Master 211
13. Epilogue 265
14. Notes 283
15. Selected Glossary of Names and Terms 313
16. Works Cited 327
17. Index 337