By Adam Dean Frank, BA, MA
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Still, Bell is overly concerned about traps that might lie in definitions, unsatisfied as she is with previous attempts in this regard. One gets the sense that Bell sees a tendency in Bourdieu toward the very structuralism he wishes to escape. She is equally critical of Durkheim. Her notion of “physical mind-body holism as the primary medium for the deployment and embodiment of everyday schemes of physical action and cultural values” (Bell 1997:240) shares some theoretical ground with Durkheim’s “mechanically engendered physical effects,” but Bell is not at all interested in using primitivity as a yardstick for measuring the significance of such forces in any given time or place.
Configured as I often was as a white person during martial arts practice in Shanghai, however, I began to hunt for the origins of racial formation, and this took me into the wider world beyond the park. I began to see the lore about race that I carried with me had emerged from a complex interplay of early memories of things “Chinese” and a fuzzier world of “Asian culture” of which martial arts practice was only a part. The complicated nature of this interplay somehow forms persistent notions about race that become more difficult to recognize as they accumulate over the course of our lives.
In Chapter 6, “From Nation to Imagination: Fantasy, Poetry, 36 Heroes,” I focus on the specifics of how the “little old Chinese Man” continues to live through taijiquan practice in the PRC. I look in detail at how the poetic forms in the classic writings of taijiquan produce notions of authenticity; at oral transmission of “tales of power”; at the nightly wudapian (marital arts soap operas) that inhabit Chinese television; and at the films that inspired so many Chinese to study martial arts. In Chapter 7, “From Nation to Transnation: Chinatown in Space,” I then look at the global marketplace for taijiquan, focusing on a brief history of how qi-related products and practices have entered the United States over the last several decades.
