Out Now: The Martial Arts Studies Reader!

I am delighted to announce that The Martial Arts Studies Reader is out now, published by Rowman & Littlefield in the Martial Arts Studies book series.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What, Where and Why is Martial Arts Studies?
Paul Bowman

Early Chinese Works on Martial Arts
Peter Lorge

The Battlefield and the Bedroom: Chinese Martial Arts and Art of the Bedchamber
Douglas Wile

Martial Arts by the Book: Historical European Martial Arts
Daniel Jaquet

The Phone Book Project: Tracing the Diffusion of Asian Martial Arts in America Through the Yellow Pages
Michael Molasky

Martial Arts, Media, and (Material) Religion
Esther Berg-Chan

Liminoid Longings and Liminal Belonging: Hyper-reality, History and the Search for Meaning in the Modern Martial Arts.
Benjamin N. Judkins

'He's an Animal': Naturalizing the Hyperreal in Modern Combat Sport
Janet O'Shea

Martial Arts as a Coping Strategy for Violence
Sixt Wetzler

Performance Ethnography
D. S. Farrer

Martial Arts Studies and the Sociology of Gender: Theory, Research and Pedagogical Application
Alex Channon

Masculinities, Bodies, and Martial Arts
Dale C. Spencer

Martial Arts as Embodied, Discursive, and Aesthetic Practice
Tim Trausch

Carnival of the Drunken Master: The Politics of the Kung Fu Comedic Body
Luke White

Learning from Martial Arts
Meaghan Morris and Paul Bowman