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Title: Master Cheng's New Method of T'Ai Chi Self-Cultivation by Man-Ching Cheng, Cheng Man-Ch'Ing, Mark Hennessy ISBN: 1-883319-92-7 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: great text and foot diagrams, dreadful photos
Comment: For a book that is intentended to be the ultimate guide to the cheng man ching short form it fails miserablery, the quality of the photos drag down the whole book, I cannot overstate how bad they are, hand,hip and shoulder details are not visable at all.
The chapters at the beginning have some amazing insights and the descriptions of the form are fine, as a limited reference and to complete your ching man cheng collection its ok, but for detailled photo's get the Thirteen Treatises.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good material, but could be more clear
Comment: The material contained in this text, like all of Cheng Man-ch'ing's writings, is wonderful. It is a clear discussion of the process of learning Tai Chi, and gives many new ideas to practice. My complaint with this book is with the translator, not the original material. After reading it, I'm left wondering what the translator added to this text. His preface brings up the interesting issue of how the content of the 37 posture form changed while the number of postures did not. However, he doesn't take a position on the argument, and offers no insight as to why the change in content is important to the reader. Also, in the discussion of the form, there are two sets of pictures. One set is of the final posture, and a second step shows the intermediary steps. It is slightly confusing because the two sets of pictures are from obviously different times as Cheng is wearing different cloths in each set. It is unclear from the text if the pictures were like this in the original text, or if the translator pieced them together. Overall, the material in the book is wonderful, but the translator could have done a better job in bringing it forth.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good...
Comment: This soft-cover book is not as good as the original hard-cover, which was (by the way) one of the two books I used to accompany the initial phases of my own T'ai-Chi journey (of 28 years). The photos lack the clarity of the hard cover and the printed instructions are not as clear as in some of the more modern illustrated instruction books. By the way, this latter comment(regarding the printed instructions) also applies to the hard-cover edition as well.
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Title: Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'Ai Chi Ch'Uan by Chen Man Ch'Ing ISBN: 0938190458 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Ch'Ing and His Tai Chi Chuan by Wolfe Lowenthal ISBN: 1556431120 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: T'ai Chi Ch'uan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health by Cheng Man-Ch'ing ISBN: 0913028851 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Cheng Man-Ching's Advanced Tai-Chi Form Instructions by Man-ch°ing Cheng ISBN: 0912059036 Publisher: Sweet Ch I Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: T'Ai-Chi: The Supreme Ultimate Exercise for Health by Cheng ISBN: 0804805601 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1967 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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