Master Tian Liyang (middle in the front) teaches students during an overseas teaching tour. Photo: Courtesy of Tian Located in Shiyan, Central China's Hubei Province, the Wudang Mountains are renowned ...

Eleven years after he started martial arts training in central China, American Jake Pinnick has returned to the Wudang Mountains in Hubei province to teach others. Pinnick was a fan of Chinese kung fu ...

American Jake Pinnick hails from a small town in the state of Illinois called Kewanee. It’s a perfect slice of Middle America, with fewer than 13,000 residents in a farming community about two and a ...

On a sweltering afternoon, a group of young men in white robes are practicing kungfu in a backyard. A man is hitting another man's exposed back with a long, thin sandbag. The man who gets beaten never ...

In 2003, the Chinese Wudang Kung Fu Troupe was established as a vehicle to research, revive and preserve the roots of Wudang as well as to celebrate the sport that has emerged from Wudang martial arts ...

The SA Wudang Wushu Institute (SAWWI) in Poortview held a spectacular Kung Fu demonstration on 17 October to welcome Grandmaster You Xuande, a 14th generation Wudang Kung Fu Grandmaster who is ...

Wudang Mountain, in the northwest of Hubei Province, is perhaps the best known of China's Taoist holy mountains. It was listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1994. The main tourist ...

According to a state of conservation report submitted by the Chinese authorities in July 1998, a commission of experts for the preservation of this site was established by the local authorities.