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There are many Tai Chi books on the market. Following is a brief list of books on the Art of Tai Chi Chuan that we can recommend to you. Of course, this list is by no means exhaustive, but is certainly a good place to start. 

Li Ch'i Hsiang Recommended Reading List


Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Chapters on Tai Chi Ch'uan

by Chen Man-Chi'ng,
Translated by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo and Martin  Inn

Publisher: Sweet Ch I Press; ISBN: 0912059001; 12 edition, (October 1985) 

 


Essence of Tai Chi Chuan: The Literary Tradition 

by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn (Editor),
Robert Amacker (Editor)
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; ISBN: 0913028630; (January 1986) 


Master Cheng's New Method of Taichi Ch'uan Self-Cultivation

 Translated by Mark Hennessy

Publisher:  Frog, Ltd and Distributed by North Atlantic Books;

ISBN: 1-883319-92-7; (1999)

 


Cheng Man-ch'ing Master of Five Excellences

 Translated  and complied by Mark Hennessy

Publisher:  Frog, Ltd and Distributed by North Atlantic Books;

ISBN: 1-883319-03-X; (1995)

 


Lao - Tzu "My words are very easy to understand"

Lectures on the Tao Teh Ching by Cheng Man Ching

 Translated by Tam C. Gibbs

Publisher:  North Atlantic Books

ISBN: 0-913028-91-6; (1981)

 


Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions

  

Compiled and Translated by Douglas Wile

Publisher: Sweet Ch I Press; ISBN: 091205901X; (June 1983) 

 


Cheng Man-Ching's Advanced Tai-Chi Form Instructions 

Compiled and Translated by Douglas Wile

Publisher: Sweet Chi Press; ISBN: 0912059036; (June 1985)


 


Master Cheng's Thirteen Chapters on Tai-Chi Chuan

  By Cheng Man-ch'ing and Translated by Douglas Wile

Publisher: Sweet Ch'i Press; ISBN: 0912059001; (1982

 

 


Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty
(Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

by Douglas Wile

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr; ISBN: 0791426548; (July 1995)

 


T'ai Chi's Ancestors: The Making of an Internal Art

 by Douglas Wile

Publisher: Sweet Chi Press; ISBN: 0912059044; (December 1999)


 


There Are No Secrets

Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing and his Tai Chi Chuan

 by Wolfe Lowenthal

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

ISBN: 1-55643-112-0; (1991)

 


Gateway to the Miraculous

Further Explorations in the Tao of Cheng Man-ch'ing

 by Wolfe Lowenthal

Publisher: Frog Ltd and distributed by North Atlantic Books

ISBN: 1-883319-13-7; (1994)

 


T'ai Chi Ch'uan

The teachings of Master T.T.Liang

IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY

 Complied by Stuart Alve Olson and Edited by Gerald Kuehl

Publisher: Bubbling-Well Press

ISBN: 0-938045-01-6; (April 1986)

 


THE TAI CHI BOOK

refining and enjoying a life time of practice

 by Robert Chuckrow, Ph.D.

Publisher: YMAA Publishing Center

ISBN: 1-886969-64-7; (1998)

 

 

CHINESE BOXING

Masters and Methods

 by Robert W. Smith

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

ISBN: 1-556430-85-X; (1990)


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