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T'Ai Chi Ch'uan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health and Self-Defense Paperback - 1993

by Cheng Man-Ch'ing


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This is the original classic about Short Form, the most popular and widespread form of T'ai Chi in the West. T'ai Chi Ch'uan is a must-read for every serious T'ai Chi student. This book is not meant to "teach" T'ai Chi Ch'uan, but meant to expound upon its meaning to the earnest practitioner; to offer the layperson a glimpse into this ancient art; and to communicate the author's unique perceptions and experiences that only a lifetime of practice can cultivate. Taken in this context, this is a most valuable book.

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The aim of practicing Tai-chi Ch'uan as physical exercise is twofold: the substantive or that which aims at making up the "body" of the exercise; and the functional, or that which aims at securing its pragmatic value.

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  • Title T'Ai Chi Ch'uan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health and Self-Defense
  • Author Cheng Man-Ch'ing
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Third Printing
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blue Snake Books, U.S.A.
  • Date January 11, 1993
  • ISBN 9780913028858 / 0913028851
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.53 x 0.43 in (21.54 x 14.05 x 1.09 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Tai chi
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95229136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613.714

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"T'ai Chi Ch'uan as an art form of self-defense must completely spurn both physical bravery and muscular force. One is told that 'in any action, the whole body must be made as light and free-moving as possible;' so light that 'the addition of a feather will be felt for its weight, and so free-moving that a fly cannot alight on it without setting it in motion.'"
-Cheng Man-Ch'ing

About the author

Cheng Man Ch'ing published T'ai Chi, the Supreme Ultimate Exercise for Health, Sport and Self-Defence in 1967. He wrote over a dozen other books on many subjects, including the I Ching, the Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius, as well as poetry, essays, and medicine. He died in 1975 at age 73.
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