by Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson, Faber & Faber, 16 March 2023 Discover legendary musician Lou Reed’s philosophies, photographs, and personal experiences inspired by his passion for Tai Chi, compiled and edited by his wife Laurie Anderson. Many of us will remember the late Lou Reed as an iconic rock musician and lead singer of […]
edited by John Little, Curtis Wong, McGraw Hill; 1st edition (October 11, 1999) Practiced by millions of people around the world, the ancient and gentle Chinese martial art of Tai Chi offers the perfect balance of mind and body, strength and flexibility, grace and agility. Its smooth, fluid movements demand precision and control while offering exercisers of […]
by Andrea Falk | March 2022 | Via TGL Books Epub Edition: Foreign Exchange Student in Wushu at the Beijing Physical Culture Institute during the 1980s Beijing Bittersweet is a memoir of the 1980s at the Beijing Physical Culture Institute. The author, Andrea Falk, was a government sponsored student in wushu from 1980 to 1983, graduating as […]
by Michael A. DeMarco M.A. | September 2021 | Via Media Publishing (September 27, 2021) Abstract The themes in this book—drawn from Chinese history, culture, and martial arts experience—are entwined in a fictional narrative to animate events envisaged to have occurred during the mid-eighteenth century. From the outset, a thin veil separates fact from fiction. Our story […]
by Svitlana Zavialova. The Wu Woman Company (January 11, 2020). Shen-fa: The Art of Cognitive Transmission of Martial Movement and Emotion is an installation diary by The Kung Fu Visionary artist Svitlana Zavialova known as Wu Woman. Devoting a decade in China to the passionate pursuit of immaterial force in wushu. Svitlana’s writing aims to invoke […]
by William Edward Douglas Jr., 2020 You may have read claims before that a book can change your life and the world. However in the opening pages of The Gospel of Science you will read comments from top experts in the fields of: Mind-Body and Personal Growth, Physics, Sociology, Economics, Government, and Theology, who after enjoying […]
by Benjamin N Judkins & Jon Nielson. State University of NY Press, 2015. This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong’s Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee’s teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing […]
by Wu Bin, Foreign Languages Press, 1995 Wu Bin is a wushu coach who has produced more wushu champions than any other coach in China. Among his students are Jet Li, Li Jinheng, Cao Yue, Zhang Guifeng, Zhang Hongmei, Hao Zhihua, Huang Qiuyan, Wang Ying, Sun Qibo, Tang Laiwei, Kenny Perez (his first American wushu student and representative), and Wang Fang. Wu began […]
edited by Fuhua Huang and Fan Hong, 2020 Chinese martial arts have a long, meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy, philosophy and tradition, distinguishing them from Western sports.A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic, featuring contributions from leading Chinese […]
by Peter M. Wayne, PhD, with Mark L. Fuerst, 2013 | A long-time teacher and Harvard researcher presents the latest science on the benefits of Tai Chi as well as a practical daily program for practitioners of all ages Conventional medical science on the Chinese art of Tai Chi now shows what Tai Chi masters have known for […]
