Master Tian Liyang (middle in the front) teaches students during an overseas teaching tour. Photo: Courtesy of Tian Located in Shiyan, Central China's Hubei Province, the Wudang Mountains are renowned ...

Eleven years after he started martial arts training in central China, American Jake Pinnick has returned to the Wudang Mountains in Hubei province to teach others. Pinnick was a fan of Chinese kung fu ...

David C. Atherton has a degree in East Asian studies from Harvard and recently returned from a year studying Chinese language and history at Beijing University WUDANG, China — Having seen “Crouching ...

WUHAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- As dawn breaks over Wudang Mountain in China's central Hubei province, a tall figure is silhouetted against the 600-year-old Yuxu Gong Temple, also known as the Jade Void ...

On a sweltering afternoon, a group of young men in white robes are practicing kungfu in a backyard. A man is hitting another man's exposed back with a long, thin sandbag. The man who gets beaten never ...

Jake Pinnick from Illinois arrived in China in 2010. A 34-year-old American man who spent the last 15 years practising martial arts and Taoism in China has been granted foreign permanent residency, ...

On the Shangri-La Ice and Fire island, Wudang master Zhang Cuishan lives with his family far from dissension and bloodshed, but he would rather die than reveal ancient secrets and leaves his young son ...

Wudang Mountain, in the northwest of Hubei Province, is perhaps the best known of China's Taoist holy mountains. It was listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1994. The main tourist ...

The palaces and temples which form the nucleus of this group of secular and religious buildings exemplify the architectural and artistic achievements of China's Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Situated ...