Saidi Mfaume (L, Front), a martial arts instructor who once trained at China's Shaolin Temple, teaches his daughter Mariam ...

In China, kung fu is very popular in a few cities and provinces, including my hometown, and I started to have interest in it when I was 8 years old. I insisted to my parents that I wanted to learn it.

Bathed in the warm equatorial sun, 53-year-old Damien Agossou Degbo is leading scores of students through precise movements of Kung Fu and Tai Chi. For Degbo, the Chinese martial arts are not ...

Although it’s common in English to refer to Chinese martial arts as “kung fu”, the term is actually derived from the Chinese phrase gong fu, which can simply mean “work that takes time ...