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Title	Author	# of Pages
The Fighting Arts	Howard Reid	240

Contents

Foreword    (p. 10)

1. The Art of Fighting    (p. 12)
2. Myth to History: The Roots of the Martial Arts    (p. 20)
    The enigma of Bodhidharma    (p. 26)
3. The Village Art of Kalaripayit    (p. 32)
    Vasudevan Gurrukal    (p. 42)
    Mathavan Asan    (p. 44)
    Panickar Gurrukal    (p. 54)
4. The Shaolin Tradition    (p. 58)
    Master Chan    (p. 78)
5. The Soft Arts of China    (p. 86)
    A family of martial artists    (p. 114)
6. The Classic Weapons Schools of Japan    (p. 118)
    The Japanese sword    (p. 144)
7. Karate: Art of the Empty Hand    (p. 152)
    The philosophy of Higaonna Sensei    (p. 172)
8. The Modern Martial Disciplines of Japan    (p. 180)
9. The Next Steps    (p. 200)
10. Martial Systems of the World    (p. 214)

Glossary of Terms    (p. 226)
Further Reading    (p. 231)
Authors' Acknowledgements    (p. 232)
Index of Chinese Terms    (p. 233)
Index    (p. 234)