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Hello and welcome to You're dead to me.

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The Radio For Comedy podcast that takes history

1:25

seriously. My name is Greg Jenna I'm a

1:27

public A or for and broadcaster and today

1:30

we are channeling our G and journeying all

1:32

the way back to Ancient China to learn

1:34

about the history of conclude and to help

1:37

with isn't a shape. I've joined by to

1:39

very special Kung Fu masters in History gone

1:41

up. He's a historian of China and an

1:43

expert in the history of East Asian science,

1:46

medicine a technology. He was previously base the

1:48

University of Liverpool Lincoln and now works with

1:50

University. And college union is totally

1:52

on Russia. Welcome Lay high

1:55

on too young I know.

1:57

Kung fu only historically so

1:59

got massively. Useful in a fight. And

2:03

in comedy gonna, He's a fantastic comedian,

2:05

actor and author. You will know him

2:07

from Tough lost their lives at the

2:09

Apollo of the New for you and

2:11

his Netflix comedy special. Maybe you've read

2:14

his wealth sides to think both sides

2:16

litter. It's fantastic, but you'll definitely remember

2:18

him from previous episodes of You're Dead

2:20

To Me on the Bushes Think Is

2:22

Com and The Terracotta Warriors Entering the

2:24

podcast dojo for a fourth time it's

2:26

Bill was welcome backfill Higher Higher Grades

2:29

Higher Leon higher. Everybody's. Gonna be back

2:31

As high as a oh hello

2:33

Very nice. I'm already the Madame

2:35

Cakes! I'm so excited A film

2:37

today we're talking about couldn't sue

2:39

and I know from reading your

2:41

book the you are a black

2:43

belt in martial arts. I am

2:45

a black belt. A muscle awesome.

2:48

A black belt in sardines you

2:50

tempo with is a Japanese modification

2:52

of tiny cell income flu. Oh

2:54

and my father and his brothers

2:56

became obsessed with this Muslims Renzi

2:58

Campo before I was born. To

3:00

the extent of the all became multiple

3:02

level black belts which are called them

3:04

said like third, Danforth and like both

3:07

V set up a dojo. so I

3:09

studied Syringe Campo at a dojo as

3:11

a kids before I moved to the

3:13

Uk. I went through a sort of

3:15

Crest Accelerated course with my uncle. To.

3:18

Get a black belts which I definitely

3:20

do not deserve. I assess assess and

3:22

without a doubt have come through an

3:25

Apu baby assess, assess and would you

3:27

know about the history of kung so

3:29

it's hard to separate the real history

3:31

with. A. Kind of folklore.

3:34

The folklore com history of

3:36

it is that to sell

3:38

income for was developed by

3:41

Sauerland monks. Centuries, Ago

3:43

because the monks kept getting attacked.

3:46

By. Bandits. Oh, he knows

3:48

things, so what do you

3:50

know? This

3:57

is the so what do you know This is where on how to

3:59

go deaf and what you. I'll lobby list I

4:01

might know about today's subjects and I'm

4:03

guessing most people have seen at least

4:05

one most last movie Kung Fu already

4:07

Kung Fu ask martial arts movies all

4:09

over the place he thought yeah Bruce

4:11

Lee, the Enter the Dragon he got

4:13

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, more dragons He

4:15

got My Face, The Matrix Trilogy, He

4:17

Will Kill Bill, Kung Fu Panda and

4:19

then of the classic pop song Michael

4:22

Douglas. Everyone the country fighting. We

4:24

know about come food through pop coach

4:27

chef but how did this most lots

4:29

has come about and what of clenching

4:31

your bum whole have to do with

4:34

any of it? Leon did you give

4:36

us a definition. Of come

4:38

from. Kung. Fu All Gone

4:40

Through is really a generic name

4:43

for a number of martial arts

4:45

from China. Some of these martial

4:47

law screwed indeed be traced back

4:50

to the Buddhist Monastery of Shower

4:52

and Sorrow. The time com food

4:54

really translates into saidi practice or

4:57

walk or something. us a little

4:59

bit tedious so an Excel spreadsheet

5:02

might become for assess, assess, auto

5:04

and in China today actually more

5:06

people were prefer to Tim Wu.

5:09

Shu an auto commonly perceived

5:11

to be ancient historians generally

5:13

agree that shouting, kung fu

5:16

and related martial arts actually

5:18

came from more or less

5:20

continuous process of change of

5:23

evolution, with key developments happening

5:25

around the sixteenth century until

5:27

the present day. Saku is

5:30

give or take five hundred

5:32

years old as we know

5:35

it now. But. The

5:37

route so running deep. I

5:39

mentioned Ancient China in the

5:41

introduction so we're gonna go

5:43

deeper to begin with. Little

5:45

to how how far back

5:47

are we going and in

5:49

time for there ought to

5:51

important precursor traditions. So the

5:53

first would be unarmed combat

5:55

and strength training. and we

5:57

have written records for the

5:59

app from the Warring States

6:01

Bears and China. So we're

6:03

talking the to third century

6:05

Bc A This mostly involved

6:07

wrestling and weight lifting and

6:09

perhaps boxing contests and would

6:11

have been associated with lower

6:13

ranking com soldiers. So the

6:15

say the second precursor tradition

6:17

is actually Taoist. Taoism is

6:19

a school of Chinese philosophy

6:21

that kind of came into

6:23

being and the Warring States

6:25

Period. So we're talking about

6:27

the seafood Fourth century Bc

6:29

A. And thousand,

6:31

as a Chinese philosophy,

6:33

emphasize things like passivity

6:35

not true nas or

6:37

spontaneity or simplicity. These

6:39

kind of hours exercises

6:42

are. They were intended

6:44

to improve the flow

6:46

of tea or. Energy.

6:48

Or vital essence around the

6:50

body and a goal is

6:53

to increase longevity and cure

6:55

or prevent illnesses and usually

6:57

involves some kind of your

6:59

breathing exercises, physical postures, sometimes

7:02

meditation and the pax that

7:04

these exercises were recorded in

7:06

that would have been to

7:08

preserve off high status elite

7:11

men so communists and women

7:13

are not welcome to do

7:15

that a different time. And

7:18

that sex is called the the dow

7:21

yin to is that right Leon? Yeah

7:23

that's right. So sell this takes to

7:25

dalliance who has several post is named

7:27

off the animals. As. We can

7:29

do many quiz for you Which

7:31

of these five pastas was not

7:33

describes in the billion to was

7:36

it the bird stretch. The.

7:38

Bear amble. The. given

7:40

jump. The. Dragon Rise.

7:43

Or. The crane? Cool. oh man. other this

7:45

would be a lot easier. Those all

7:47

sounds. Viable. I'm

7:49

going to say that the fake ones

7:51

are the bear amble and the crane

7:53

coal. Well, I'm afraid we have that

7:56

a sixth one the red herring because

7:58

their role in their document. I

8:00

knew his own rules about. I mean

8:03

you are those so raped me Leon

8:05

What's the point of these various poses?

8:07

Is it sort of similar to yoga

8:09

or is it about stretching and strengthening

8:11

muscles? While many of these past is

8:13

ah really about the flow of tea

8:15

and the channels of the body in

8:17

which see would flow I see like

8:19

unless the sort of bring the a

8:21

tone down the little bit because the

8:23

next thing with script is a cell.

8:25

Would you think the public pool was

8:28

a buttered poll? Yeah I think what.

8:30

Happens to me when I stand up

8:32

too quickly. ssssss you haven't been too

8:34

emotional side of her. A stuff off

8:36

a bus pulled a i imagine it's

8:38

saw one of these of feats of

8:40

strength may that a solid muscle do.

8:43

When will they attach some great way

8:45

to their buttocks and move it along

8:47

with of the strength of their butts

8:49

and spent that that this is absolutely

8:51

not that for the great mental image

8:54

with about does know a cancer do

8:56

then. Services. For all his

8:58

glory one of the most important postures

9:00

or it involves cleansing ones A nurse.

9:02

So it as one medical manuscript I

9:04

would describe how or when you're eating

9:07

and drinking you should relax the buttocks,

9:09

straighten your spine, second a nurse and

9:11

let did see pass through you and.scored

9:13

quote Unquote Moving to fluid let's head

9:15

over to Henan Province in the Seventh

9:18

century because I think sell for the

9:20

entire episode you have been desperately waiting

9:22

for the south and monk the show

9:24

up. Would he know about the Chalet.

9:27

Monastery. It is the

9:29

preeminent monastery in China.

9:31

All the deeds bald and they

9:33

were orange. Owns

9:36

and they meditate on Buddhism

9:38

and the story I was

9:40

always told is that they

9:43

kept getting attacked by bandits

9:45

on the road between the

9:47

monastery and other know the

9:49

canteen ssn A So they

9:51

developed a system of self

9:53

defense to protect them. From.

9:56

Bandits pretty good of leon. Can we have

9:59

them or space? The fake history

10:01

so the tradition of unarmed

10:03

combat and this additional south

10:05

cultivation techniques from Dallas and

10:07

they came together at the

10:09

Sound and Temple which is

10:11

of course in months song

10:13

near the cities of law,

10:15

young and dumb jokes Now

10:18

sudden samples a Buddhist monastery

10:20

founded in the sixth century

10:22

ce he allegedly by an

10:24

Indian monk named in the

10:26

Chinese sources half bottle or

10:28

for tour. In

10:30

the seventh century Ce sound

10:32

and became an important center

10:34

for a new school of

10:36

Buddhism known as Tron Buddhism

10:38

or in Japanese Zen Buddhism

10:40

or the Aids Sensory See.

10:42

It was said that the

10:44

legendary Indian monk Bodie Dharma

10:46

had found dead at hand

10:48

Buddhism and child and and

10:50

he sat in a cave

10:52

near Sound and sample for

10:54

nine years and he was

10:56

staring at a war and

10:58

he was meditating. Know historians

11:01

generally agree that Sounds Philosophy actually

11:03

and much a century after the

11:05

death of Bowtie Dharma of a

11:07

rigged not have a whole lot

11:09

to do about it Our spring

11:11

Any case, because of all of

11:13

these kind of sacred associations and

11:15

because Law Young, which is as

11:17

city that was near the Sound

11:19

and Temple was an imperial capital

11:21

for most of the first millennium

11:23

see he Shall in Temple actually

11:25

enjoyed a lot of patronage from

11:27

the ruling elites and became fabulously

11:29

wealthy. The monks a rule. So

11:31

siding with the Sun political faction is

11:34

that right? Yep, that's right. sorrow. The

11:36

seventh century textual evidence celebrate the victory

11:38

of south and monks over raiding bandits

11:41

in six hundred and Ten. See! So

11:43

finally we got some pundits was so

11:45

bizarre this I saw it was actually

11:47

for them. So D C is possibly

11:50

a former self defense or they were

11:52

bandits who will like oh you guys

11:54

have fabulous the wealthy on you have

11:56

things that we may want a night

11:59

so wait. To attack the Charlene Temple

12:01

in the Saudi months to a while. Now

12:03

we're gonna pure up. Wow. His

12:05

home and own said his home

12:07

alone with assess assess them alone

12:10

if the Ss some of the

12:12

late Ming period which is that

12:14

the fifteen hundreds we have loads

12:16

evidence the cell in martial arts

12:18

have become more widespread throughout China

12:20

and sell dino which weapon. The.

12:22

Monks and now notorious for using last

12:25

Six Seasons tear gas. If it ain't

12:27

broke, don't fix it. insists. I mean

12:29

obviously. Goblins Point: We've heard about unarmed

12:32

combat, sophist and seats. I feel like

12:34

somehow they fifty to slightly by agreeing

12:36

now that they can use weapons. So

12:39

why the stick? wine or I'd And

12:41

I've swords or axes. while possibly because

12:43

staff would be less lethal and blades

12:46

and there for this after roles and

12:48

they're not supposed to kill people or

12:50

bait most certainly did. But also the

12:53

staff. Was also a kind of religious

12:55

symbol in Buddhism by the fifteen forties

12:57

and fifties. Now we to bring in

12:59

pirates into the story and we've got

13:02

monks being sent off to go in

13:04

like hundred down pirates. I'm sorry what

13:06

happened to the meditate at all for

13:09

you guys Beatles see supra meditate and

13:11

now they're dying on. Threads.

13:13

Six assists Ssssss. Leon

13:16

them in as one example:

13:18

Fifteen Fifty Three where these monks

13:20

michelle than one a series

13:22

of victories that really buffet

13:24

since two thousand A story with

13:26

the fifteen forties and fifteen

13:28

fifties. Source: Huge number of

13:30

raids by pirates on the east

13:33

coast of China, especially in

13:35

the young non region. The pirates

13:37

even starts to move inland and

13:40

pillaged wall cities and these

13:42

pirates were know as Roll

13:44

Call and more Coal. Literally

13:46

meant Japanese bandits, but there were

13:48

not all Japanese, some of them

13:50

foreigners possibly dots, possibly Portuguese, and

13:53

of also actually a large number

13:55

of actual Chinese people who joined

13:57

the pirates and were involved in.

14:00

Illegal overseas traits are so the

14:02

real cosmopolitan dream as like very

14:04

lists kosher Polish and Pres yeah

14:07

allow ours is very progressive, it's

14:09

very multicultural and so insisting fifty

14:11

free The Sound and Monks allegedly

14:13

won series of really important victories

14:16

against the pirates at a place

14:18

called When Jack Gang and Hundred

14:20

supply routes were allegedly killed and

14:23

only for Shaolin Monks died Well

14:25

it's like when you watch when

14:27

you read a rare Batman comic.

14:30

Where he kills someone you like Feminists are

14:32

supposed to do that. Assess assess Now Liam,

14:34

I don't have this is an obvious question,

14:36

but the seems to be a pretty glaring.

14:39

Conflict. Here, between the Buddhist

14:41

monks presumed commitment to peace

14:43

and meditation and moderation and

14:45

them literally going on killing

14:47

pirates with their bare hands,

14:49

how did they the system,

14:51

how do they hold those

14:53

two philosophies at once? So

14:55

fighting is indeed at odds

14:58

with for this philosophy and

15:00

historians have looked into yeah

15:02

that evolution of this the

15:04

might be some reasons and

15:06

pragmatic reasons for those on

15:08

and temple. Monks to deviate from

15:10

the path of peace and take

15:12

up violence. These will increase our

15:15

protection and then also it's political

15:17

pragmatism so they want to be

15:19

noticed and have a say on

15:21

Chinese Empire. Paul the Sacrifice that

15:23

was a Classic Ming a manual

15:26

called the Scene. Use Transformation Classic

15:28

Sixteen Twenty Four for the title

15:30

fill when you could call your

15:32

book Senior Transformation Classic. You've missed

15:34

out there since since. Amazing Classic

15:37

or yeah, the bus when they

15:39

brought. The brand back. Because

15:41

it had gone wrong cause they'd

15:43

done been rebranded Old by to

15:45

Times and Moonlight. Let's sell the

15:47

original version as he recalled due

15:49

to the classic Assist the resources

15:52

Ssssss and it was composed by

15:54

the author known as the Purple

15:56

Coagulation Man of the Way is

15:58

while Ssssss confusing title aside. The

16:00

text the we've mentioned it a second went

16:02

full text. It's really important the combined shall

16:04

in fighting techniques. With. The Dow

16:06

Is system of self cultivation we

16:08

heard about the beginning be upset

16:10

Leon So we finally got the

16:12

fusion of the fighting stuff and

16:14

the the health stuff and they're

16:16

coming together under sixteen twenties. Yeah

16:18

so they a senior transformation classic

16:20

which by the way it's also

16:23

translated as be a tendon Moving

16:25

classics as is kind of we

16:27

attack so combines military and fair

16:29

if you take an religious ideas

16:31

into said one book sold a

16:33

Pow training the body but potentially

16:35

also. making one invulnerable or

16:37

immortal from the seventeenth century

16:39

own words sound and monks.

16:41

because of the Senior Transformation

16:43

classic, they began to increasingly

16:45

focus on unarmed combat to

16:47

the extent that the staff

16:49

now was kind of deemphasize.

16:51

And in the seventeenth century

16:53

and the on week we're

16:55

getting household manuals as well

16:57

starting to appear and is

16:59

offering advice on household management

17:01

and lifestyle choices. So anything

17:03

from like arithmetic, divination, nutrition,

17:05

Or yet. Recipes, arts, jokes, even

17:08

ideas about romance, eccentrics, actress. And

17:10

they're also sections on unarmed combat

17:12

and self defense for the entire

17:15

family. and some not. everybody's doing

17:17

kung fu fighting is as other

17:19

branches of martial arts. this woo

17:22

Done this Tie t. But.

17:24

The one I want to talk about

17:26

his got beautiful named Winston which means

17:28

beautiful spring time. But. It's charming

17:30

name for extreme violence fill

17:32

beautiful spring time to be

17:34

getting your as secession around

17:36

Wings Hon is it. Come

17:38

from style emphasize the say

17:40

hi stands and very very

17:42

small close range movement so

17:45

like small chaps as opposed

17:47

to set of like from

17:49

long range punching an indie

17:51

twentieth century and origin story

17:53

and legend arose.wings and have

17:55

been taught by being more

17:57

and more was a mistake,

17:59

sound and. None and see

18:01

towards wing turn to a teenage

18:03

girl caught gym wing chun so

18:05

when turn is the name of

18:08

this young girl because she was

18:10

basically just constantly harassed and she

18:12

had like unwanted sexual advances and

18:15

a marriage proposals and so this

18:17

mythical sound and done taught this

18:19

home for to this young down

18:22

and okay so you can just

18:24

go and. Beat. Up all

18:26

these mattress men and harasses. so

18:28

that's the sort of legendary origin

18:30

story in reality winch and probably

18:32

develop relatively recently. So we talking

18:34

about the late nineteen, maybe even

18:36

early twentieth century in a city

18:38

code for Sun which is in

18:40

Guangdong Province in Southern China. Well,

18:42

you mentioned the late nineteenth century

18:45

under and Guangdong Province se China

18:47

which means hooray. Hit on the

18:49

British, The ruin of As Air

18:51

In the late nineteenth century, we

18:53

are talking about the European Colonial

18:55

empire. Into South China and the horrible

18:57

stories. That. Come from that but it's

18:59

this process there by will be start to

19:01

get people in the west becoming aware. Of.

19:04

Kung Fu because of things like the

19:06

Boxer Rebellion. With Brits. Call

19:08

the the uprising from the between

19:10

these people. So Leon this is

19:12

a it's complicated piece of political

19:14

history. but in terms of the

19:17

most love story is this a

19:19

ton of really important meeting of

19:21

east and west status as a

19:23

very important moment. So in the

19:25

way to sort of western and

19:27

pair interference particularly to opium wars,

19:29

martial arts became associated with the

19:31

assertion off on Chinese identity A

19:33

became so popular that kind of

19:36

actually threatens the state so. Martial

19:38

arts training was outlawed by

19:40

dissing Dynasty. An actual number

19:42

of kung fu masters were

19:44

executed because didn't started to

19:46

pose as security problem. These

19:48

themes contributor to days of

19:50

uprisings in the nineteenth century

19:52

soda Boxer Rebellion which is

19:55

eighty Ninety Eight to Ninety

19:57

No One and it's named

19:59

after the. Depends who were

20:01

martial artist hands, their boxes and

20:03

the Boxer Rebellion and their come

20:06

from styles became known to Britain

20:08

through a number of channels like

20:10

minutes or reports, our diplomats and

20:13

martial arts auto. A lot of

20:15

it was Japanese started to appear

20:17

in this country and and Britain

20:20

from around the late nineteenth century.

20:22

so Edward bought and right invented

20:24

something called it Bought It Sue

20:26

which is based on the Japanese

20:29

to sit through. Which the

20:31

suffragettes stand lands wow or self defense

20:33

nine idea of the suffragettes new com

20:35

flu doesn't credible so if you when

20:38

when when your own martial arts what

20:40

we to call it and what would

20:42

involve oh. Man. Tell. What?

20:44

John Nice, nice. Wang Chung

20:47

is a highly aggressive. This

20:49

is completely unfair. Matsunaga is

20:51

random. he comes out of

20:54

know as it is a

20:56

highly unjust. It

20:59

is a. Good

21:01

sit on society and the

21:03

government will try. And stop

21:05

was just like they tried and

21:07

stop trying to stop the sound. A

21:10

masters in China, not swine to assess

21:12

as great yeah to a dojo dare

21:14

you say running other franchises. Not

21:19

brings us rather beautifully to Bruce Lee's.

21:21

Phil Duff. Must! The fans will

21:24

know you from your iconic and somewhat

21:26

scandalous yellow jumpsuit. So and toss ministers

21:28

a toss Must! I wore Bruce Lee's

21:30

Game of Death outfits which I wanted

21:33

to do as an A Mas to

21:35

Bruce Lee but it ended up being

21:37

on a Mas. To. My

21:40

own reproductive capabilities. So.

21:44

Why do we get Bruce Lee? What Is

21:46

it? Historically cult? Read this happening in China?

21:49

And Southeast Asia. That gives us. This.

21:52

New. Since. Cinematic art

21:54

form. When. D C C

21:56

P to Chinese Communist Party came

21:58

to power and trying to nineteen

22:00

forty nine. The state actually got

22:03

involved in kung fu and downplayed

22:05

a lot of their spiritual and

22:07

contemplative elements, transforming kung fu into

22:10

a former sports and exercise. And

22:12

so a lot of kung fu

22:14

masters actually left for Hong Kong

22:17

or Taiwan or America or European

22:19

countries and not include a Bruce

22:21

Lee's teacher Eat Man who left

22:24

for Hong Kong. I think it

22:26

was a nice and fifty zooming

22:28

to cultural revolution period. So we

22:31

now we're into nineteen Sixty Six

22:33

Two Nineteen Seventy Six Martial Arts

22:35

then came to be seen as

22:38

elitists and corrupt and superstitious and

22:40

so forth. And and this letter

22:43

even more Kung fu masters leaving

22:45

China for western countries so filled

22:47

you get and of. Governmental.

22:50

Crackdown on a much loved which gives

22:53

us. Bruce. Lee Essentially yes,

22:55

right his ear. His family was immune

22:57

from San Francisco of me. Bruce Lee?

22:59

Yeah, and so he has He So

23:02

when back as it were to Hong

23:04

Kong. And sort of kickstarted

23:06

the couple movie industry you will,

23:08

His games, Death Outfit. On

23:11

I know the beginning of your book. You

23:13

talk about Bruce Lee as a sort of

23:15

been an icon. A Yeah! I had a

23:17

formative experience of going to Brazil exhibition in

23:19

Hong Kong. And. The

23:21

have is ounces our that a lot

23:24

of photos of him, lots of footage

23:26

of him and he was just so

23:28

i haven't appreciated for just are like

23:30

powerful. And confident and

23:32

sexy. He was. And it

23:34

must have been. I mean is still

23:37

is to me of that nine now.

23:39

A pretty. Revolutionary. Idea

23:41

of like the very sexy Chinese guy.

23:44

And. He was doing it in New know. Was.

23:46

It the sixties or seventies. And

23:48

he built like a whole culture,

23:50

whole industry and entire cultural movement.

23:52

Emilio on the did services that

23:54

movies he made. It's funny thing

23:56

is of Death, the Green Hornet

23:58

into the Dragon. And. We get

24:01

to sort of kung fu craze almost,

24:03

which then leads on to subsequent. The.

24:05

Other artists. And. He's

24:07

also developing his own martial arts

24:09

leon as me ask so he

24:11

develop a martial art style coat

24:13

she couldn't All what's true on

24:15

a number of influences primarily wing

24:17

chun but also from Shaolin kung

24:19

fu and I guess really asked

24:21

for was saying was Bruce Lee

24:24

really brought to the table and

24:26

that was kind of unique to

24:28

Bruce Lee a he worse incorporating

24:30

kind of west in bodybuilding, couches

24:32

and fact muscles and who come

24:34

through and he also at the

24:36

same. Time he promotes had

24:38

quite a kind of violent

24:40

and they are all A's

24:43

and masculinity and a kind

24:45

as like Chinese nationalism and

24:47

Asian prize that proved very

24:49

important actually and also commercially

24:52

incredibly successful in sign of

24:54

Phone communities but also with

24:56

Western audiences and Bruce Lee

24:58

would pave the way for

25:00

Chinese stars like Jackie Chan

25:03

and Jet Li and Michelle

25:05

Yeoh and he also influence.

25:07

Often directly to careers of Hollywood

25:09

stars of white Hollywood stars like

25:12

David Carradine who was a course

25:14

in Com Food series and also

25:16

fell from Kill Bill and one

25:19

a Breezy students worse as Norris

25:21

and One Song or s the

25:23

internet favorites meme South North ssssss

25:25

so I mean Bruce Lee is

25:28

this incredible icon of ancient story.

25:30

Going back Really? what can take

25:32

a bath? Let's you know thousand

25:35

is so that's a long. Long

25:37

history when. He.

25:44

Says but part of the show were still

25:46

and I clearly practice some bus it pulls

25:48

her while the on cells or something that

25:51

we need to know so my stopwatch is

25:53

ready. it's of the Leon take it away

25:55

place. While I want to say a little

25:57

bit about what's happening and sound and temple

25:59

these. If so, if you're not

26:01

satisfy was just watching kung fu

26:03

on a big screen or small

26:05

screen you can learn kung for

26:07

you can visit the south and

26:09

ten for yourself and do a

26:11

quote unquote, shout and come through

26:14

summer school either actually have to

26:16

become buddhist monk to do that

26:18

The shallow and by the nineteen

26:20

nineties and two thousands has become

26:22

a major tourist center with more

26:24

than a million visitors every year.

26:26

It has his own kind of

26:28

performing troop that would are. Regularly

26:30

toward a world doesn't have to

26:32

show sound in martial arts academy

26:34

which tens of thousands of students

26:37

and many of the students would

26:39

go on to become professional athletes

26:41

or maybe even movie star or

26:43

a soldiers and elite military units

26:46

in China or the personal bodyguards

26:48

for Chinese billionaires and is traveling

26:50

to China's visit. The sounds simple

26:52

sounds too time consuming and far

26:55

too expensive. You can learn sounding

26:57

kung fu at one of the

26:59

many quote. South and franchise schools

27:01

in law cities around a

27:03

while, this one London, this

27:06

one, Paris is when Berlin,

27:08

This one, New York, this

27:10

one in San Cisco and

27:12

all of this is a

27:14

result as China's economic reforms

27:16

in the nineteen eighties and

27:18

Ninety nineties and this level

27:20

of com modification of tradition

27:22

and consumption of tradition were

27:24

part of the unleashing off

27:26

entrepreneur realism and market forces

27:28

on to Chinese society. And

27:30

it was something that

27:32

was actively supported and

27:34

endorsed by debt Chinese state.

27:37

So here you have come

27:39

to meet capitalism. An

27:42

unstoppable partnership.

27:44

Ssssss. Was

27:47

like so much sell Thank you. So much so

27:49

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27:51

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very much And to quote Bruce Lee

28:21

Be water my friend. I've no idea

28:23

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28:27

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28:29

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