Chen Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan by Cheng Man Ch’ing

Paperback by Cheng Man-Ch’ing.

In this scholarly yet practical book Professor Cheng shares the secrets of his lineage and takes us to the heart of T’ai Chi Ch’uan presenting it as a martial art a medicine and a means of exercise and self-development. With examples from anatomy and physics he demonstrates precisely how the postures and moves work internally as energetic principles and externally on opponents. He makes plain the spheres triangles and centripetal and centrifugal forces within physical exchanges such as push-hands. Contrasting Western and Chinese techniques of healing he also explores the relationships of organs to one another in pathology and the necessary dynamics of treatment.

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