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Where do I get it from? Mostly from martial arts studies and pouring through scholarly articles on the martial arts. It's devilishly difficult to assert the true province of many Chinese martial arts books and manuals due to the practice of attributing the authorship of the book or manual to various historical figures.
Other scholars point out that the Song Dynasty "copyright" was actually government censorship and a limit on the ability to publish rather than any sort of attempt to protect authors' rights. It is much more in line with the various British monopolies of printing. The first true copyright laws in China were passed in 1910 by the Qing Dynasty. This comes from "Protecting Ideas and Ideals: Copyright Law in the People's Republic of China" an article published by June Lazar in 1996 in International Business.
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