Where Are All the Kung Fu Masters?
Wu Shu on the mainland is in a dismal state. All the great masters left for Hong Kong and abroad during the war on ancient China waged by the Communist Party. Now, if one wants to study classical styles, Australia and the US offer better schools for common students than China proper. On the Mainland, Wu Shu has degenerated into crude fighting styles used by soldiers and cops to beat down migrant workers when they fail to produce legal documents. The few masters that do exist live off of the money their students make as security guards. Traditional Wu Shu was always a guarded secret in China, and now that secret is going to the grave with the old masters due to a lack of students. In remote towns like Hanyuan, tourist towns like Dali in Yunnan and the glorified Shaolin Temples, masters are still to be found and a revival is happening, but if it were not for those anti-government traitors who fled the Mainland in 1949, classical Chinese Wu Shu would have all but disappeared. Business Fir
