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Douglas Wile translates and analyzes four collections of recently released nineteenth-century manuscripts on T'ai-chi ch'uan. These writings of Wu's older brothers Ch'eng-ch'ing and Ju-ch'ing, and his nephew Li I-yu, together with the transmissions of Yang Pan-hou, represent a significant addition to the seminal literature. The rich new texts allow us to make a fresh survey of longstanding issues in T'ai-chi history: the origins of the art; the authorship of the "classics" the differences between Wu, Yang, and Li; and the roles of Chang San-feng, Wang Tsung-yueh, Chiang Fa, and the formerly missing link, Ch'ang Nai-chou. The original Chinese texts of the four new sets of classics have been appended for the convenience of Chinese readers and scholars. The book reconsiders the world of the Wu, Yang, and Li families of Yung-nien and reconstructs it against the background of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and the decline of the Manchu dynasty. New biographical sources illuminate the domestic and political lives of the Yung-nien circle and their orientation to the late imperial intellectual trends. The development of T'ai-chi ch'uan in the nineteenth century is explored in the context of China's cultural response to the challenge of the West and the role of body-centered arts in Asia during the drive for independence and the ongoing search for national identity.
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Douglas Wile is Associate Professor at Brooklyn College. He is the author of The Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics, Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts, also published by SUNY Press.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is the best translation of the classics ever, it is clear
and well written and contains previously unknown information.
Both beginers and advanced tai chi practitioners will benifit from it.
If you only get one translation of the taiji classics ever...........this is it.
and well written and contains previously unknown information.
Both beginers and advanced tai chi practitioners will benifit from it.
If you only get one translation of the taiji classics ever...........this is it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Douglas Wile's T'ai Chi's Ancestors and Lost T'ai-ch'i Classics from the Late Ch'in Dynasty deserve to be treated as a pair and included in every serious student's library. They are unique in that they not only present previously secret, advanced concepts to Western readers; they introduce a much needed, well balanced, Western perspective to T'ai Ch'i martial arts literature. Readers, East and West, should be cautioned however. These are advanced texts that require a great deal of thought and careful analysis to be appreciated.
William S. Dockens III PhD.
William S. Dockens III PhD.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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As well as new information on the 'classics' this book sheds much light on the true 'origins' of Tai chi (Tai Chi's Ancestors by the same author also helps greatly). Being a very scholarly work it is not an easy read but it repays the effort working through it. If you do not have a copy of the tai chi 'classics' yet, then get this one first. It is worth the money for the translations alone.
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