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Title: Master Cheng's Thirteen Chapters on Tai Chi Ch Uan
by Man-Ch'Ing, Doublas Wile, Douglas Wile, Cheng Man-Ch&Ing, John Salerno
ISBN: 0-912059-00-1
Publisher: Sweet Ch I Press
Pub. Date: October, 1985
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $8.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

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Rating: 5
Summary: This is the Best translation - authorized or not!
Comment: No offense meant to Madame Cheng, but this translation so far outstrips the Lo and co. version that the only reason to buy the other one is that the pictures are superb, the hardback is very well made and there are minor sections not to be in either of Wiles' 2 Cheng Books.

Wile however it must be noted, only presents 'the core 13 chapters themselves. No pictures, Q and A, forwards, etc. Tese are mostly available in his 'Cheng Man Ching's Advanced Tai-Chi Form Instructions'.

The Footnotes added to the second edition make it probably the best documented book on Tai-Chi in English.

Unfortunately neither edition is complete as they both lack the classics, LO and Co. published them seperately as Essence of tai-Chi Chuan and Wile included them in his 'Tai-Chi Touchstones'.

Wile's initial translation it may be noted was the steam that moved 'the official translation' out of the station as far as I can tell, so if he had not gone ahead and provided this seminal Tai-Chi textbook to us, would Lo finally have done it anyway?

Back to translation. Wile clearly has a better grasp of Taoist Alchemical and Medical terms, or at least abeeter sense of presenting them in English [which is odd considering that Martin Inn, a co-translator, is an Acupuncturist! But there it is, what is clouded and obscure in the hardback/North Atlantic version often shines with clarity and grace in Wile's.

So if you do not do Cheng's style and pictures of him prqacticing are a minor point woth you, compared to his exposition of Yang Tai-Chi Theory and Philosophy, this version is probably not just the one you want, but the only one you will need.

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