Learning, mastery and ageing: Alternative narratives among British practitioners of traditionalist Chinese martial arts
Learning, mastery and ageing: Alternative narratives among British practitioners of traditionalist Chinese martial arts
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学习、掌握和衰老：英国传统中国武术练习者的另类叙述
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2012
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George Jennings
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George Jennings
东方运动形式，如非体育的、传统主义的亚洲武术，是日常西方社会的重要组成部分，提供了不同的哲学概念，并通过跨文化传播继续修改。在一些西方身体文化中流传的一个重要概念是，基于共同的学习和个人发展，对与衰老有关的心身“问题”的另一种叙述。这种不同的叙事在各种传统的中国武术亚文化和教学中得到了支持，就像我在英国的生活史和(汽车)民族志项目中所发现的那样。在这篇文章中，我试图通过三个核心的、相互关联的叙事来探索这个心身问题，这些叙事目前正被英国中医中药的倡导者分享和推广：精炼-学习、完美-掌握和尊重-老化。因此，这篇文章有助于思考日常亚洲武术爱好者的具体化故事。同时，它提供了叙事研究作为理论和方法，以探索这些在其他亚洲身体文化中的个人、制度和文化故事。
Eastern movement forms such as the non-sporting, ‘traditionalist’ Asian martial arts are important components of everyday Western society that offer alternative philosophical concepts which continue to be modified through cross-cultural diffusion. One significant notion spreading in some Western body cultures is an alternative narrative of the mind–body ‘problem’ related to ageing based on shared learning and personal development. Such an alternative narrative is supported in various traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMA) subcultures and pedagogies, as found within my own life history and (auto) ethnographic project in England. In this paper, I seek to explore this mind–body problem via three core, interconnected narratives currently being shared and promoted by British exponents of TCMAs: refinement-learning, perfection-mastery and respect-ageing. Consequently, this article contributes to a consideration of the embodied stories of everyday Asian martial arts devotees. At the same time, it offers narrative inquiry as both theory and method to explore these personal, institutional and cultural stories in other Asian body cultures.