The YMCA Consensus in Depth

Ben Judkins over at Kungfu Tea-Martial Arts Studies Blog asked me to do a more complete examination of the YMCA Consensus which separated theater, martial skills, and religion. So I put together an extended essay with citations and references, and Ben added a few awesome photos from his collection. It looks really good. I hope this will inspire some conversations which are valuable to the (soon to be fully unified?) fields of theater, martial arts, and religious studies.

Check it out!

https://chinesemartialstudies.com/2017/04/27/traditional-chinese-martial-arts-and-the-ymca-consensus/