Tai Chi Chuan Principles & Practice

Master C.K. Chu's classic title on tai chi is back in print in a new and improved third edition. The paperback has a new cover design, a detailed index for the first time, and an additional introduction. This book features original tai chi classic texts including The Tai Chi Treatise (a must-read for all tai chi practitioners) and a famous Question & Answer dialogue with Chen Wei-Ming, along with interpretations by famous 19th and 20th century masters and, of course, Master Chu's commentary. Here's an excerpt from Master Chu's new "Introduction to the Revised Third Edition" (Jan., 2006): "Looking back I see how the tai chi classics are more relevant than ever. In the 1970s few people had heard of tai chi here in America. Now we have the opposite problem. It's almost as if there's too much tai chi.... The authentic meaning, once available only through a few rare sources, now threatens to be lost in a mountain of information.... For this reason I say consult these [classic] texts at all time."

For over 39 years now Master C.K. Chu taught Tai Chi Chuan and related disciplines at his renowned Times Square martial arts school, Chu Tai Chi (formerly the Tai Chi Chuan Center of New York). Born in Hong Kong in 1937, Chu holds an M.A. in Physics, which he taught at Queens College (C.U.N.Y.), New York Institute of Technology, and Brooklyn Tech. Master Chu is the author of definitive books on Tai Chi (Tai Chi Chuan Principles and Practice, first edition, 1981), Nei Kung (The Book of Nei Kung, 1986), Taoist meditation (Chu Meditation, 2002), and Chi Kung (Eternal Spring Chi Kung, 2003), and related instructional videos. He is also the founding director of the non-profit Tai Chi Chuan Center.