Read Books!
/This is a difficult book but helped me think through a bunch of issues around Chinese opera performers as ritual experts, prostitutes, ideal lovers, the worst possible marriage, orphans and fighting masters.
The Way of the Mask, by Claude Levi-Strauss
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This is a great book by one of my teachers, thoughtful discussions about martial arts and lots of cool weapons drills.
The Liar the Cheat and the Thief: Deception and the Art of Sword Play, by Maija Soderholm
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This is a great collection of essays.
Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern, edited by Vivienne Lo
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This is what I'm reading now, Canonization rituals!:
Guo, Xiaoting, active 18th century
Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji
Xu, Zhonglin, 16th century
Feng shen yan yi (Canonization of the Gods)
Journey to the North: An Ethnohistorical Analysis and Annotated Translation of the Chinese Folk Novel Pei-Yu Chi (Bei Youji) translation by Gary Seaman.
