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Barbara Davis. The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation.(Book review)
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China Review International
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September 22, 2006
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Barbara Davis. The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003. xxi, 212 pp. Soft cover $16.95, ISBN 1-55643-431-6.
Taijiquan, as we see it today, did not develop in a vacuum, but reflects developments in one style of Chinese boxing under conditions that influenced all the Chinese martial arts, to one degree or another, over the past 300-plus years. Chen Weiming (1881-1958) helped twentieth-century Chinese taijiquan students gain a better understanding of its concepts and dynamics. Barbara Davis has placed this in context, and through her translation, made it available to a global audience in the twenty-first century.
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