Bangladesh is obsessed with Chinese traditional wushu

DHAKA - Considered a living legend, Alamgir Shah Bhuiyan, is the highest ranking wushu master in Bangladesh.

Today's Grand Master Bhuiyan began full-time wushu training at the age of 13, nearly four decades ago, when he was an eighth grade student at the Motijheel Government Boys' High School in the capital city of Dhaka.

Bhuiyan, who was then a Kung Fu practitioner, one day in 1980 saw a picture of martial arts on the back page of a Chinese sports magazine inscribed with the word wushu, which at the time was unknown to him as well as many other athletes here.