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30 Archival Research. In Shanghai, my chief archival sources were bookstores and the Shanghai Public Library. I also gathered materials from the library of the Shanghai Physical Education Institute (Shanghai tiyu xueyuan) and the National Library in Beijing. The rare books section of the Shanghai Public Library maintains a particularly fine collection of pre-1949 martial arts materials. ” In Beijing, the bookstore of the Beijing Martial Arts Academy (Beijing wushuyuan) provided several key reference works.
Smith published an account of his experience learning martial arts in the Taiwan of the early 1960s called Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods (1974). After several decades of publishing among the best of the “howto” books on martial arts, he then wrote an exceptionally detailed and literate memoir, Marital Musings: A Portrayal of Martial Arts in the 20th Century (1999). Smith has little interest in debating social theory (other than an occasional swipe at Republicans), but his books do go a long way toward introducing martial arts to a well-educated audience that includes many non-practitioners.
China has several dozen sports universities (tiyu daxue) that publish martial arts-related articles (see Chapter 5 for a more complete survey of this literature). While most of these articles deal with exercise science topics, in recent years, authors have addressed cultural topics as well. A non-academic popular history publication, Sports Culture and History (Tiyu wen shi), is dominated by such articles. In addition, several martial arts histories have appeared through publishing houses that specialize in sports or martial arts books, among them the massive Encyclopedia of Chinese Martial Arts (Zhongguo wushu baike quanshu, 1998) and The Illustrated Dictionary of Chinese Martial Arts (Zhongguo wushu tu dian, 1998).