There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan"Wolfe Lowenthal's quiet little memoir will with window-opening wisdom reinforce, I think, my view of how Cheng stood on Tai Chi. It tells how a young writer reacted to this strange Chinese man when he appeared in New York City in the mid-1960s and stayed there for a decade before returning to Taiwan to die in 1975. In a nickel town where neurosis is a cardinal virtue, the Tai Chi center established by Cheng soon became an oasis of learning. In my visits there I was invariably approached by a quiet fellow with a ready smile and loads of questions. His form and sensing hands improved but he never lost his kindly ways. This led me once to tell the three seniors that the one person in the club who best exemplified Tai Chi was this junior. That man who has since become a teacher of the art is the author if this book." -Robert W. Smith, from the Preface |
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User Review - dugenstyle - LibraryThingThere Are No Secrets is a series of vignettes about Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and his tai chi. The book is not for instructional purposes (e.g., 'here's how you perform Ward Off'), but rather focuses ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 6 |
Section 4 | 8 |
Section 5 | 22 |
Section 6 | 26 |
Section 7 | 33 |
Section 8 | 37 |
Section 16 | 76 |
Section 17 | 80 |
Section 18 | 90 |
Section 19 | 94 |
Section 20 | 96 |
Section 21 | 101 |
Section 22 | 112 |
Section 23 | 123 |
Section 9 | 40 |
Section 10 | 44 |
Section 11 | 52 |
Section 12 | 54 |
Section 13 | 61 |
Section 14 | 63 |
Section 15 | 72 |
Section 24 | 127 |
Section 25 | 129 |
Section 26 | 132 |
Section 27 | 134 |
Section 28 | 136 |
Section 29 | |
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| Title | There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan |
| Author | Wolfe Lowenthal |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | North Atlantic Books, 1993 |
| ISBN | 1556431120, 9781556431128 |
| Length | 176 pages |
| Subjects | › › Sports & Recreation / History Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts / General Sports & Recreation / Reference |
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