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Title: Should come with a shovel...
Review: so the reader can dig himself out of the pile of crap that spews forth from Brian Kennedy's pen. As another reviewer pointed out, there are so many errors, mis-statements, and outright falsehoods in this book that it's difficult to point all of them out. But perhaps the biggest clue that this book is no more factual than the historical manuals deemed "pulp fiction" by Kennedy is his reliance on the questionable "research" of Tang Hao. Tang Hao was a known communist (even arrested for it) and a shill for the newly formed Chinese communist government. Hao's research into historical martial arts manuals amounted to nothing more than a commie white-washing of Chinese martial arts history. The Chinese government continues to hide the true history of martial arts, even to this day although they have begun to allow some of the "real" kung fu to be publicly practiced again. Avoid this steaming pile of misinformation!
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