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Article: Anthony L. Schmieg, M.D. Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2005
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Anthony L. Schmieg, M.D. Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 234 pp. Paperback $20.95, ISBN 0-8248-2823-2.
Anthony L. Schmieg is a practicing physician who studied both traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts in Taiwan in the early 1970s. He has also contributed a chapter on traditional Chinese medicine in Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia, edited by Thomas A. Green (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001).
Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine causes the reader to think, but it is not an easy read. At first glance, some of the author's views ...