Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions Book by Douglas Wile (Revised Edition)

Three generations of Yang family masters lifted the art of Tai-chi ch'tan from a closed courtyard in Honan Province to the status of a national treasure and made of it, like India's yoga, a gift to the world.

Yang Lu-ch'an in the nineteenth century, followed by his sons and their sons, have given Tai-chi ch'lan the theoretical and practical standard which still defines and shapes the art for a majority of practitioners today.

This book draws together the written and photographic record of their teachings, a legacy spanning more than fifty years of published material. The contents include oral instructions, mnemonic verses and training songs, commentaries to the Tai-chi Classics, essays, autobiography, and family legends, much of which has not been previously translated.

Length: 256 pages

Publication date: 1983