《中国功夫(英文版)(精)/中华之美丛书》由王广西著，韩慧枝译。中国功夫是一种特殊的文化形态，它以攻防搏击为表现形式，以丰富的套路、招式、功法为具体内容，在激烈的身体对抗（多数表现为假想对抗和模拟对抗）中敢于胜利并善于胜利。中国功夫是千百年来民族智慧的结晶，是民族传统文化在武技一道的体现，也是民族心理个性在健身自卫领域的合理反映。中国功夫不仅仅是搏击术，更不是单纯的拳脚运动，也不是力气与技法的简单结合，它饱含着哲理，深蕴着先哲们对生命和宇宙的参悟，以一种近乎完美的运动形式诠释着某种古老的哲学思想，追求那种完美而和谐的人生境界。

王广西(Wang Guangxi), whose pen name is Lu Cao, was born in Xixia, Henan province in 1941 and died in 2008. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Henan University. He had served as a researcher in the Literature Research Institute of Henan Academy of Social Science, a fellow in the Henan Research Institute of Culture and History, standing director of Modern Chinese Literature Research Society and deputy dean of Wushu Culture Research Center, Physical Education Institute, Zhengzhou University. His life was devoted to modern literature and wushu culture research, and his works include Buddhism and Chinese Modem Poetry Biography of Zuo Zongtang, Kong Fu-Culture of Chinese Wushu Circles, Chinese Soldier, Chinese Wushu and Wushu Spirit and Central Plaint Culture . Wushu.

Foreword
The Origins of Martial Arts
Principles of Wushu
Schools of Wushu
Shaolinquan Family
Wudangquan Family
Emeiquan Family
Nanquan Family
Taijiquan Family
Xingyiquan Family
Baguaquan Family
Weapons
Short Weapons
Long Weapons
Hidden Weapons (anqi)
Three Stages of Chinese Wushu Practice
Characteristics of Chinese Wushu
Systematic
Strict Order
Principle of Gradualness
Nurturing qi and Moral Cultivation
Aesthetics
Chinese Wushu and Chinese Culture
Wushu and Regimen
Wushu and Literatures, Films and TV
Chinese and Foreign Wushu Exchange
Two Big Challenges in the Martial History
Chinese Wushu Going Global
Development of Modern Chinese Wushu
Modem Wushu Centers (schools)
Wushu Education at Colleges and Universities
Wushu Competitions and Olympic Performance Events
Folk Wushu Development
Development Tendency
Appendix: Notice on Wushu Exercisess