The 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, China (20-23 October 2019) was exceptionally well covered by WushuTV. All events were live-streamed and later were available as recorded videos. Thanks to that, we were able to watch all performances of the Australian athletes. In short: Good effort! For details, see our Summary compiled from the official results: […]
21-22 September 2019 Review of 2019 Conferenceby Dr. Khoo Cheng Choo The programme of the 2019 Conference “Tai Chi, Wushu & Qigong in Today’s World” promised an exciting and informative time for all who attended, and it definitely delivered. The two dayConference had a discernable and palpable positive energy as speakers presented and fielded numerous […]
by Guo-Bin Dai & An Lu Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (published online 06 August 2019) Abstract Wushu is widely misunderstood and its essentially combative nature is being challenged in public discussion. Understanding and recovering its essential nature has become a core issue. This paper first conducts a review of the history of the Chinese […]
by Gehao Zhang(Doctoral Thesis) Abstract This thesis takes the primary contemporary icons of Chinese tradition –the popular practice of Tai Chi‐and subjects its career in both China and the West, to a series of critical interrogations focusing on three main moments; the invention and (re)imagination of tradition, the practice’s migration from China to the West, […]
by Brian Corless The aim of this article is to let the Australian Tai Chi community know about the need for more people in Australia to become more physically active and to ask for your help with ideas and suggestions about getting more people involved in Tai Chi. In 2018 the United Nations World Health […]
Health Qigong Duan Wei: Most Australians are not Welcome to the Melbourne Health Qigong Event to be held on 7 – 13 August 2019 in Melbourne, Australia Wushu & Tai Chi NSW supports the global movement of Health Qigong as a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, […]
