T'ai Chi Touchstones Yang Family Secret Transmissions |
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Editor:
| Wile, Douglas |
ISBN: | 978-0-912059-01-3 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1983 |
Publisher: | Sweet Ch'I Press
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Imprint: | Sweet Chi Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.95 |
Book Description:
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Three generations of Yang family masters lifted the art of T'ai-chi ch'üan from a closed courtyard in Henan Province to the status of a national treasure and made of it, like India's yoga, a gift to the world. Yang Lu-ch'an in the nineteenth century, followed by his sons and their sons, have given T'ai-chi ch'üan the theoretical and practical standard which still defines and shapes the art for a majority of practitioners today. This book draws together the written and photographic...
More DescriptionThree generations of Yang family masters lifted the art of T'ai-chi ch'üan from a closed courtyard in Henan Province to the status of a national treasure and made of it, like India's yoga, a gift to the world. Yang Lu-ch'an in the nineteenth century, followed by his sons and their sons, have given T'ai-chi ch'üan the theoretical and practical standard which still defines and shapes the art for a majority of practitioners today. This book draws together the written and photographic record of their teachings, a legacy spanning more than fifty years of published material. The contents include oral instructions, mnemonic verses and training songs, commentaries to the T'ai-chi Classics, essays autobiography, and family legends, much of which has not been previously translated.