We’ve been so busy that we’ve neglected the great stack of Chinese books we are slowly adding to our collection. Even though in modern format, many of these books detail early styles and histories of this ancient art. Today’s entries include a book and DVD combination on ShanXi Tong Bei (through-the-back) boxing, a truly long-arm […]
Nov
29
2019
29
2019
Feb
5
2018
5
2018
206 B.C.E.: THE DANCING ASSASSIN
Just a short excerpt from Professor Kang Ge-Wu’s martial history, The Spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts. If you are interested in the broader view of Chinese Kung Fu, this is a must have. It is the first–and only– book issued in English on the 5000 year history of Chinese Martial Arts, and Plum’s first […]
Nov
17
2013
17
2013
A New Big Bagua Book
Long time coming is this presentation, the first in English, of the Bagua writings of Liu Feng Cai. Liu was a practitoner of the Gao Yi Cheng branch of Cheng Style Bagua. He is known for some of the most dramatically and uniquely posed Bagua positions and movements ever photographed. Members of the Tang Shou […]
Aug
19
2013
19
2013
Aug
5
2013
5
2013
A Thousand Years Ago: 1101 to 1125
excerpted from Professor Kang Ge-Wu’s martial history The Spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts-5000 Years 1101 to 1125 Towards the end of the Northern Sung Dynasty, Wushu had become the main content of various performances, and it had many stylized routines. Dong Jing Meng Hua Lu records that Emporer Hui Zong watched the performances […]
Nov
23
2011
23
2011
May
3
2011
3
2011
Kang #2 Here, Bagua Power
Here is the SECOND DVD in our exclusive Plum Series…
Apr
4
2011
4
2011
The Return of Kang
Several years ago, we took tremendous pride in being the first (and only) representatives to offer …
Jan
10
2010
10
2010
Product: More Shaolin Gold
We continue to fill in our new series of “forms” with a well-known Shaolin…
Dec
12
2009
12
2009
Product: Shaolin Gold, new collection
So disappointed were we in what was coming out as “Shaolin” that we had almost decided to stop adding to our line up.
Feb
18
2008
18
2008
Kang Ge Wu, Professor and Historian
Kang Ge Wu was born in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province in 1948.
Jul
22
1998
22
1998
Postcards from the Shaolin Temple
Real postcards, real Temple, real cool…
