T'ai Chi Ch'uan Book Recommendations

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• Chen, David C. When Yin Meets Yang...Words of Wisdom on Taijiquan Practice. Published in Taiwan. 2006
  
  
• Chen Pan-ling. Chen Pan-ling's Original Tai Chi Chuan Textbook (Tai Chi Chuan Chiao Tsai). Transliterated by Y.W. Chang. Translated by Y.W. Chang and Ann Carruthers. New Orleans, Louisiana: Blitz Design, 1998
  
  
• Chen Wei-Ming. T'ai Chi Ch'uan Ta Wen: Questions and Answers on T'ai Chi Ch'uan. Translated by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo and Robert W. Smith. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1985
  
  
• Chen, William C.C. Body Mechanics of Tai Chi Chuan: For the Art of Self-Defense. New York, New York: William C.C. Chen, 1973 [1989 and later printings have additional material.]
  
  
• Cheng Man Ch'ing. Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan. Translated by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo and Martin Inn. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1985
  
  
• Cheng Man Ch'ing. Master Cheng's New Method of Taichi Ch'uan Self-Cultivation. Translated by Mark Hennessy. Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd., 1999
  
  
• Cheng Man Ch'ing. T'ai Chi Ch'uan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health and Self Defense. Videotape. Ashville, North Carolina: Cho-San Inc., 1996 [A compilation of two short films made of Professor Cheng, not an instructional video.
  
  
• Cheng Man-ch'ing, and Smith, Robert W. T'ai-Chi: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1967
  
  
• Davis, Barbara. The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation Including a Commentary by Chen Wei-ming. Berkeley, California: North America Books, 2004
  
  
• Diepersloot, Jan. The Tao of Yiquan: The Method of Awareness in the Martial Arts. Volume 2 of the Trilogy, Warriors of Stillness: Meditative Traditions In The Chinese Martial Arts. Walnut Creek, California: Center For Healing & The Arts, 1999
  
  
• Fu Zhongwen. Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan. Translated by Louis Swaim. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1999
  
  
• Gallagher, Paul B. Drawing Silk: A Training Manual for T'ai Chi. Guilford, Vermont: Deer Mountain Taoist Academy, 1987. New and revised edition published as Drawing Silk: Masters' Secrets for Successful Tai Chi Practice. BookSurge Publishing, 2007
  
  
• Jou Tsung Hwa. The Tao of Tai-Chi Chuan. Rutland, Vermont; Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1980
  
  
• Kuo Lien-Ying. Unpublished Chinese manuscript translated by Guttmann. The T'ai Chi Boxing Chronicle. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1994
  
  
• Lo, Benjamin Pang Jeng. Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing's Simplified T'ai Chi Ch'uan (37 Postures). Videotape. San Francisco, California: Universal T'ai Chi Ch'uan Association, 1991 [As one of Ben's students I admit to a certain degree of prejudice, but this is the only "Short Form" instructional video I ever recommend. ]
  
  
• Lo, Benjamin Pang Jeng; Inn, Martin; Amacker, Robert; and Foe, Susan. The Essence of T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Literary Tradition. Richmond, California: North Atlantic Books, 1979
  
  
• Lowenthal, Wolfe. There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing and his Tai Chi Chuan. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1991
  
  
• Lowenthal, Wolfe. Gateway to the Miraculous: Further Explorations in the Tao of Cheng Man- ch'ing. Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd., c/o North Atlantic Books, 1994
  
  
• Ma Yueh-liang; and Zee Wen. Wu Style Taichichuan Tuishou (Push-Hands). Hong Kong: Shanghai Book Co., 1986
  
  
• Pang, T.Y. [Tze Yau]. On Tai Chi Chuan. Bellingham, Washington: Azalea Press, 1987
  
  
• Smith, Robert W. Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods. New York, New York: Kodansha International, 1974
  
  
• Wang Peisheng; and Zeng Weiqi. Wu Style Taijiquan A Detailed Course for Health and Self-Defense and Teachings of Three Famous Masters in Beijing. Hong Kong: Hai Feng Publishing Co., 1983
  
  
• Wang Xuanji. Dachengquan. Hong Kong: Hai Feng Publishing Co., 1988
  
  
• Wile, Douglas. Compilation and translation. Cheng Man-Ch'ing's Advanced T'ai-Chi Form Instructions: With Selected Writings on Meditation, The I Ching, Medicine and the Arts. Brooklyn, New York: Sweet Ch'i Press, 1985
  
  
• Wile, Douglas. Compilation and translation. T'aichi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions. Brooklyn, New York: Sweet Ch'i Press, 1983
  
  
• Wile, Douglas. Compilation and translation. Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1996
  
  
• Wu Ying-hua; and Ma Yueh-liang. Wu Style Taichichuan: Forms, Concepts and Applications of the Original Style. Hong Kong: Shanghai Book Co., 1988
  
  
• Yang Chengfu. The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan. Translated by Louis Swaim. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2005
  
  
• Zhang Yun. The Art of Chinese Swordsmanship: A Manual of Taiji Jian. New York: Weatherhill, 1998
  
  
• Zhang Yun; Ho, David; Capell, Peter; Darley, Susan. The Taijiquan Classics: The Essential Translation and Explanation with Commentary on History and Culture. North American Headquarters: Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association, 2016
  
  

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