STANLEY E. HENNING
Independent Scholar
Chinese Martial Studies Research
Stanley E. Henning served 28 years (1965-93) in the U.S. Army in a wide variety of assignments that included
overseas tours in Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong, where he supervised the U.S. Army officer
advanced Chinese language and area studies program at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Chinese
Language School. He taught English language and literature at Yunnan Normal University from 1995-96, and
served as a Department of Defense civilian China policy officer from 1999-2004. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese,
and has written articles on Chinese defense strategy, language, and history. He studied Yang style Taijiquan and
Shanxi Che style Xingyiquan under Wu Chao-hsiang in Taiwan (1970-72). He holds a Masters degree in Overseas
Operations from the University of Hawaii, through an East-West Center grant, and a BA in History from The Virginia
Military Institute.

Conference on Asian Popular Culture, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Apr 1618, 1998, Paper presented, published in Journal of Asian Martial Arts, Vol. 8, No. 3,
1999.
International Forum on Taijiquan, 2003, South China Normal University, Guangzhou,
Dec 26-28, talked on International Development of Taijiquan
Ethnic Cultural Construction and Contemporary Chinese Martial Arts, 2007,
Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, Aug 6-9, discussed future of martial arts. Paper in
Chinese submitted, "Fujian: Home of Southern Boxing -- Door to the Spread of
Chinese Martial Arts. 福建：南拳的家乡 － 中国拳法向外流传的大门.
Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia, 2 Volumes, Thomas A. Green, Editor,
ABC CLIO:Santa Barbara, 2001 (Member, Editorial Board, and Chinese martial arts
Contributor):
• Animal and Imitative Systems in Chinese Martial Arts, 16-18
• Boxing, Chinese, 26-32; China, Martial Arts, 65-72
• External vs. Internal Martial Arts (views mentioned), 119-122
• Folklore in the Martial Arts (co-authored with Dr. Tom Green), 123-135
• Japanese Martial Arts, Chinese Influences On, 199-300
• Korean Martial Arts, Chinese Influences On, 299-300
• Religion and Spiritual Development: China, 455-462
• Women in the Martial Arts: China, 689-692
• Wrestling and Grappling: China (edited historical portion), 705-710
• Written Texts: China 745-748.
Martial Arts in the Modern World, T.A. Green and J.R. Svinth, Editors, Praeger, 2003.
• “The Martial Arts in Chinese Physical Culture, 1865-1965”, pp. 13-35.
China Review International
• *Douglas Wile’s Lost T’ai Chi Classics From the Late Ch’ing Dynasty, Vol. 4, No. 2,
Fall 1997 『评《晚清遗失的太极经典》』
• *National Physical Culture and Sports Commission Martial Arts Research Institute’s
Chinese Martial Arts History, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1998 『评国家体委《中国武术史》』
• “Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts”, Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999."
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/china_review_international/v006/6.2henning.pdf

• Ma Mingda’s Discourses on the Sword: Collected Manuscripts, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring
2004.

• Anthony Schmieg’s Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional
Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2005.
• Barbara Davis' The Taijiquan Classics, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2006.
Classical Fighting Arts
• "The Imaginary World of Buddhism and East Asian Martial Arts", Vol. 2, No. 12, 2007
Journal of Asian Martial Arts
• * "Chinese Boxing: The Internal Versus External Schools In the Light of History and
Theory", Vol. 6, No. 3, 1997 『中国拳术 - 从历史与理论的观点看内外两家』
• * "Observations on A Visit to the Shaolin Monastery", Vol. 7, No. 1, 1998 『游少林寺的
回忆』
• * "Southern Fists and Northern Legs: The Geography of Chinese Boxing", Vol. 7, No.
3, 1998 『南拳北腿 - 中国拳术的地理』
• Xi Yuntai’s Chinese Martial Arts History, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1999
• “Chinese Boxing’s Ironic Odyssey”, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999
•“Traditional Korean Martial Arts”, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000
• Cheng Dali’s Chinese Martial Arts: History and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000
• Douglas Wile’s T’ai Chi’s Ancestors: The Making of an Internal Martial Art, Vol.10,
No. 1, 2001
• “What’s in a Name? The Etymology of Chinese Boxing”, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2001
• Barbara Davis’ The Taijiquan Classics, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2004
• “New Light on the King Jinnaluo Legend and Shaolin Staff Fighting”, Vol. 13, No. 4,
2004
• Order of Shaolin Ch’an’s The Shaolin Grandmaster’s Text: History, Philosophy, and
Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch’an, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005
• “Insights from the Home of Xingyiquan“, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005
• Meir Shahar’s “Chen [sic] Zongyou, Explanation of the Original Shaolin Staff Method”
in Mair, Steinhardt & Goldin, eds., Hawai’I Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture,
University of Hawai’I Press, 2005, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2006
• “China’s New Wave of Martial Studies Scholars”, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006
• “Che Style Xingyiquan in Taiwan as Taught by Dr. Wu Chaoxiang”, Vol. 15, No. 3,
2006
• “Chinese General Yue Fei: Martial Arts Facts, Tales and Mysteries”, Vol. 15, No. 4,
2006

• Marnix Wells' Scholar Boxer: Chang Naizhou's Theory of Internal Martial Arts and the
Evolution of Taijiquan, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2006
• "Ge Hong: Famous Daoist Thinker & Practical Martial Artist", Vol, 16, No. 3, 2007
• "The Maiden of Yue: Fount of Chinese martial Arts Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2007
Taijiquan Journal
• “The Origin of the Name Taijiquan’”, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2001
• “The Sounds of Practice: Taijiquan’s Kiai”, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2001
• “What’s the Military got to do With Taijiquan?”, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2002
• “Report From China”, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2004
The Chenstyle Taijiquan Journal

http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/index.html
• "Ignorance, Legend, and Taijiquan", Vol. 2, No. 3, 1994
• "An Introduction to T’ai Chi Ch’uan (1971)", Vol. 3, No. 1
• "General Qi Jiguang’s Approach to Martial Arts Training", Vol. 3, No. 2, 1995
• "On Politically Correct Treatment of the Myths in the Chinese Martial Arts", Vol. 3, No.
2, 1995
• "Author of Lost Ming Boxing Treatise Identified", Vol. 4, No. 6, 1996
• "Martial Arts Myths of Shaolin Monastery Part I: The Giant with the Flaming Staff,"
Vol.5, No.1, 1999

Military Affairs (now Journal of Military History)
• "The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective", December 1981
*Chinese language summaries available for asterisked entries/可供中文摘要