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LIT-1373: Reconstruction of Tradition: Modernity, Tourism and Shaolin Martial Arts in the Shaolin Scenic Area, China

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StatusUnavailable — no lawful copy reached, 2026-10-22; failed on access. The article and its 2019 reprint are closed: Unpaywall and OpenAlex list no open location for either DOI, Semantic Scholar marks it closed, and CORE has metadata only. Taylor & Francis (tandfonline.com) and the Routledge chapter page (taylorfrancis.com) returned 403 to this client. The Internet Archive has no copy of the article or of the book Martial Arts in Asia (Hong & Ok, eds.), and Internet Archive Scholar answered with an anti-scrape check; ResearchGate returned 403; a web search found no author-posted copy (the author is Xiaoyan Su, Luoyang Normal University, per OpenAlex), only a blog review. The summary is the abstract's, unchecked. Registered from the owner's branched exchange of 2026-10-22, "Branch · Graph Learning Applications". No NOTE is filed.
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Tagssocial-science, religion, society-and-governance
ReportsCASE-139 — Chinese martial traditions through the Cultural Revolution: practices restricted, teachers persecuted and teaching driven underground, then after 1978 a reconstruction of Shaolin martial arts through heritage policy and tourism in which local practitioners and authorized institutions dispute who carries the tradition

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Su, X. (2016). Reconstruction of tradition: Modernity, tourism and Shaolin martial arts in the Shaolin Scenic Area, China. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(9), 934–950. doi:10.1080/09523367.2016.1227792. Reprinted as a chapter in Martial Arts in Asia (Routledge, 2019), pp. 54–70, doi:10.4324/9781351167802-6.

Not read: no lawful copy was reached on 2026-10-22 (see the status note). The summary is drawn from the abstract, and a reading should check it first.

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The owner proposed the perspectival interruptions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a case near the martial-arts material (U37). A37 called Su’s study “probably the strongest real-world CASE I found”. The case is CASE-139.

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