Donations fund this site and ongoing ethnographic research on folk martial arts and traditions in rural north China. This includes the purchase of hardware, equipment for data analysis and field expeditions.
MaxQDA Review: A definitive solution for qualitative research (coming soon) Research during my MA and PhD research in rural north China (1990-2014), I accumulated hundreds of interviews with villagers, martial arts masters, traditional doctors, businessmen, influential rural women, teenagers and…
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