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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 February 1998
... Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty. By DOUGLAS W I L E . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xviii, 251 pp. $17.00 (paper). To date, most non-Chinese works on Taijiquan have for the most part been "technical manuals," which have tended to focus either on the martial/self-defense aspects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1111–1112.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the source of martial arts, the Daoist Zhang Sanfeng having invented Taijiquan, or Chinese martial arts being primarily about peaceful, nonviolent inner cultivation. (Sorry, Grasshopper.) He points out that archery was the premier martial art throughout most of Chinese history; that the emergence of imperial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Shu-Ki Tsang 210 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES speaking personally, as a Taijiquan enthusiast and budding martial arts historian, I would recommend it to anyone interested in Chinese "popular culture," or the role of traditional physical culture in Chinese popular consciousness. TAO-TAO HUANG...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 41–90.
Published: 01 February 1988
... manuals informative about the circulation system, texts on prognostics, illustrations of daoyin exercises (more like yoga asanas than the postures of present-day taijiquan), regimens aimed at immortality, and others. The earliest were interred as grave goods in 168 B.C.33 Some remarkable insights...