Universally they agreed that China had once had a great martial culture, but it had all gone so horribly wrong. To be more precise it was their job to save the martial arts from their own past. The national reform movements of the 1910s-1940s were forward looking and relentless in their optimism.

This is very different from the sense that you get when researching the local styles of Southern China. In purely commercial terms they were more popular than their national competitors in the 1920s-1930s. By the 1950s in Hong Kong they had no serious challengers with the exception of a few traditional northern schools. But their rhetoric is always tinged with a heavy dose of nostalgia.

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