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Abstract
This article examines how martial arts students retell their stories about being left behind and how they have experienced, viewed, and struggled with the invisible violence. Popularly known as the “hometown of Chinese martial arts,” Dengfeng is home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students. Drawing on 12-month-long fieldwork, this article highlights how martial arts students have (re)constructed the meaning of home(lessness) through bridging their past as left-behind children and the present as martial arts students. This article argues that such redefining of home(lessness) is resulted not only from the practice of invisible violence but also from how martial arts students engage with the structural, symbolic, and normalized violence.
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Author Biography
Xuan Dong is assistant professor and Chenhui Scholar at the Department of Education, East China Normal University. He recently completed his PhD in Anthropology at the College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. His work moves across the fields of anthropology of education, China studies and youth culture.
