This kung fu movie villain was such a great bad guy that he wound up with seven different film appearances in the martial arts genre.

Shaolin kung fu is considered the largest school in Chinese martial arts. It contains hundreds of extant styles including barehanded and armed techniques, each boasting routines that promise to ...

Several of the most entertaining kung fu movies from the kung craze of the 1970s are streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Discover What’s Streaming On: As someone who’s both a frequent reviewer of programming on streaming video services and — especially in these uncertain and homebound times — an even more frequent ...

On the second floor of Far East Plaza in Chinatown, six kung fu students assume warlike expressions and ball their hands into fists. Shaolin Master Shi Yanxu bellows a command: “Mao Bu” — Chinese for ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the ...

Shaolin Soccer: Action comedy. Starring Stephen Chow, Ng Man Tat, Vicki Zhao. Directed by Chow. Written by Chow and Tsang. Kan Cheung (PG-13. In Cantonese with English subtitles. 87 minutes. At the ...

S H A O L I N, China, March 26 -- The warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple have been perfecting and passing on their martial arts skills for 15 centuries. But not even the wisest of monks could have ...

Shaolin Temple monk Shi Yongxin knows only too well strength, flexibility, sensitivity, grace and endurance are important components of kung fu. A monk performs the Shaolin kung fu in this undated ...

Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

Like many kids growing up the early ’90s, Master Shi Yanqing watched Jet Li movies and dreamed of being a hero. Unlike most of those kids, Yanqing lived only 170 miles from the 1,519-year-old Shaolin ...