The popular image of Emei's women fighters comes largely from best-selling novels by Hong Kong author Louis Cha, who wrote ...

In front of a secluded temple in southwestern China, Duan Ruru skillfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practicing kung fu techniques she has spent a decade mastering. Chinese martial arts ...

Chinese martial arts have long been considered a male-dominated sphere, but a cohort of Gen Z women is challenging that ...

In front of a secluded temple in south-western China, Duan Ruru skilfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practising ...

Members of the Emei Kung Fu Girls Troupe are from Beijing, Shanghai, and Sichuan and Henan provinces. They receive regular training in Mount Emei, where they learn Emei martial-arts moves, such as ...

But it has not achieved the same level of public fame as other kung fu schools, such as Shaolin. That is starting to change thanks in part to Duan's nine-woman troupe, Emei Kung Fu Girls ...

Although it’s common in English to refer to Chinese martial arts as “kung fu”, the term is actually derived from the Chinese phrase gong fu, which can simply mean “work that takes time ...

Kung-fu all'amatriciana, echoes of Tarantino, nostalgia of 'Roman Holiday', action, love, cuisine, and revenge: all this is ...