Description
Paperback.
This unique book by Master Shi Ming and Siao Weijia explores the Chinese science of mind/body and the refinement of consciousness in the higher martial arts.
Shi Ming is a highly accomplished master of the traditional Chinese martial art of Taijiquan (T'ai Chi Ch'uan), with over forty years' experience and training. He is the inheritor of a private traditional that is outlined in this book, and has many students and followers. A board member of the China Martial Arts Society and the Beijing Martial Arts Society, Master Shi was featured on Bill Moyers' acclaimed 1993 public television series Healing and the Mind, where he gave astounding demonstrations of the extraordinary inner power developed by an advanced martial artist.
Siao Weijia is a longtime practitioner of martial arts and one of Shi Ming's leading disciples. Multilingual Mr. Siao teaches Russian language in Beijing. He is a board member of the China Martial Arts Society and a special researcher in the Department of Science of the Human Body at the China International Science Center. He applies his own method in his study of Master Shi Ming's skills and Chinese traditional culture.
Thomas Cleary is the translator of more than forty works of philosophy, religious texts, and literature from Chinese and Japanese sources, and is the leading translator of Taoist texts. Internationally recognized, Dr. Cleary's works have been retranslated into ten modern languages.
Shi Ming with Siao Weijia
Translated by Thomas Cleary