Now even 2 cartoon pandas are doing it! Whether you’re practicing t’ai chi ch’uan to keep fit, live longer and grow old gracefully discovering your karma through Buddhist wisdom, feeling safer after wing chun self-defence classes or becoming a fan of exotic cult films, your initial exposure to this passion probably owes something to that first kung fu fad. Soon the whole world – from hungry kids in remote African shanty-towns to the latest James Bond blockbuster – “ Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting”. Then suddenly, a handful of low budget, appallingly dubbed and garishly violent action movies, made in Hong Kong a pretentious American TV show, and the mysterious premature death of a young Chinese actor, provoked a frenzy of public excitement throughout the United States and Europe. Until the early 1970s, Kung Fu, the amalgam of ancient Chinese martial arts, and health and fitness regimens, was virtually unheard of outside of China and the Far East.
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