figurines & knick knacks
there are no secrets professor cheng man ching and his tai chi chuan
wolfe lowenthals quiet little memoir will with window opening wisdom reinforce i think my view of how cheng stood on tai chi . it tells how a young writer reacted to this strange chinese man when he appeared in new york city in the mid 1960s and stayed there for a decade before returning to taiwan to die in 1975 . in a nickel town where neurosis is a cardinal virtue the tai chi center established by cheng soon became an oasis of learning . in my visits there i was invariably approached by a quiet fellow with a ready smile and loads of questions . his form and sensing hands improved but he never lost his kindly ways . this led me once to tell the three seniors that the one person in the club who best exemplified tai chi was this junior . that man who has since become a teacher of the art is the author if this book . br robert w. smith from the preface