In front of a secluded temple in southwestern China, Duan Ruru skilfully executes a series of chops and strikes, practising ...

Chinese martial arts have long been considered a male-dominated sphere, but a cohort of Gen Z women is challenging that ...

In front of a secluded temple in southwestern China, Duan Ruru ... I thought that girls learning martial arts was super swaggy," Duan, 23, said. The ancient Emei school where she trains in the ...

China's southwestern Sichuan province. The ancient Emei school in the mountains of Sichuan is thought to have welcomed a higher proportion of women and girls but has struggled in recent years to ...