Public Wing Chun Schools in Foshan (1920-1940)
Most accounts of Wing Chun’s history in Foshan focus solely on their subject (Ip Man or, less frequently, Yuen Kay San) before moving on to post-WWII events. From the view of a cultural historian, this is a significant flaw because neither of these individuals was “typical” of the average Wing Chun practitioner, let alone a martial artist, during this…