A Review of the studies on Taiwan^s Martial Arts Education and Development
Hsienwei Kuo a, Chinfang Kuo b*

a Center for General Education, National Tainan Institute of Nursing

b * Department of Sport Management, Aletheia University,

Abstract

When martial arts study is a part of East-West research, especially the category of Asian research, Chinese martial arts has been already one of the main bodies of East Asian Wushu research. However, the trend, orientation and value of Taiwanese martial arts education and development research have not been able to receive the attention of the academic community, resulting in a lack of literature review regarding this topic have been conducted. Therefore, this article aims to conduct a review the studies on Chinese martial arts education and development in Taiwan and try to have a dialogue with international martial arts studies on this topic in order to explore more insightful issues related to Taiwanese martial arts education and development. We adopted the method of integrative literature review in this article and used a keyword search strategy to screen three major academic databases. The searching results excluded retrospective and repetitive literatures, and selected the most related topic ones. A total of 19 literatures that met the criteria were included in the review and analysis. This review begins by outlining the main findings of the studies on martial arts education and development in Taiwan. Second, the limitations of these studies are discussed. Finally, we make specific recommendations based on these findings, and limitations, and outcomes of current international martial arts study.

Keywords: martial arts education, wushu,integrative literature review

Topic: Traditional sports and physical culture in Asia