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Sacred Cows and Broken Noses examines thirty common myths, assumptions, and reasoning errors found throughout martial arts culture. It evaluates Qi, forms, Chi Sao, sparring, lineage, conditioning, self-defense, and combat through clear definitions, functional training, resistance, and pressure testing.

Qigong and the Politics of Breath examines how ancient Chinese breath, movement, meditation, and health practices were reconstructed under Marxism, transformed during Qigong Fever, and remystified in the West. It presents Qigong as a living practice shaped by politics, science, culture, and human need.

The Book of Illusions examines how secrecy, mysticism, mistranslation, psychological manipulation, commercial incentives, and modern media shaped popular ideas about Kung Fu. It investigates extraordinary claims while presenting a practical framework for verification, honest internal training, ethical teaching, and responsible preservation.

Living Wude: The Modern Path of Martial Virtue is a 2025 book by Dustin Shane Bunnell that applies the ethical principles of Chinese martial arts to contemporary life. The second volume of The Martial Virtue Series examines how Wude can guide relationships, work, leadership, digital conduct, conflict, emotional discipline, service, and personal development.

Kung Fu is more than fighting technique. Behind forms, conditioning, weapons, and combat skill lies an older question: what kind of person should possess that knowledge?

Wude (武德), commonly translated as “martial virtue,” addresses that question.

Martial training develops capability. Wude concerns what you do with that capability. It asks how strength should relate to restraint, how courage should relate to judgment, how loyalty should relate to integrity, and how martial skill should shape your conduct beyond the training hall.

This book approaches Wude as something more substantial than etiquette, slogans, or lists of virtues. It examines martial virtue through Chinese philosophy, history, martial culture, and the realities of modern practice.

The goal is practical: to make Wude relevant to how martial artists train, teach, lead, disagree, investigate claims, treat their students and teachers, and conduct themselves when nobody is watching.

Martial skill tells us what we are capable of doing.

Wude asks whether we should do it, why we should do it, and what kind of person we become through the choice.