Reading List
Qigong
Breathing Spaces, Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China, by Nancy N. Chen, Columbia Univ. Press, 2003.
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, by David A. Palmer. Published by Columbia University Press, 1997, 356 pages.
Taijiquan
The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan, by Yang Chengfu, Translated by Louis Swaim, North Atlantic Books, 2005.
The T’ai Chi Boxing Chronicle, Compiled and Explained by Kuo Lien-Ying, Translated by Guttmann, North Atlantic Books, 1994.
Scholar Boxer, Chang Naizhou’s Theory of Internal Martial Arts and the Evolution of Taijiquan, by Marnix Wells, North Atlantic Books, 2005.
Nei Jia Quan, Internal Martial Arts, Teachers of Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, and Ba Gua Zhang, edited by Jess O’Brien, North Atlantic Books, 2004.
A Study of Taijiquan by Sun Lutang, translated by Tim Cartmell, North Atlantic Books, 2003.
Opening the Energy Gates of your Body, BK Frantzis, North Atlantic, 1993? (look for new addition)
Chinese Religion, Cosmology and Thought
Yuan Dao, Tracing Dao to Its Source, by D.C. Lau and Roger T. Ames, Ballantine Books, 1998.
Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, by Donald S. Sutton, Harvard University Asia Center, 2003, 432 pages.
Early Daoist Scriptures, Stephen Bokenkamp, UC Press, 1997.
To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth, A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents, Robert Ford Campany, UC Press, 2002.
Taoism, Growth of a Religion, Isabelle Robinet, translated by Phyllis Brooks, Stanford Univ. Press, 1997.
The Taoist Body, Kristofer Schipper, UC Press, 1993.
The Spirits are Drunk, Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion, by Jordan Paper, SUNY, 1995.
The Sinister Way, The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture, UC Press, 2004.
Popular Religion in China, Stephen Feuchtwang, Curzon Press, 2001.
Religions of China in Practice, Edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Princeton Univ. Press, 1996
Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi, Edited by Roger T. Ames, SUNY, 1998.
Taoism and the Arts of China, Stephen Little, editor., The Art Institute of Chicago and UC Press, 2000.
Confucianism
Centrality and Commonality, An Essay on Confucian Religiousness, Tu Wei-Ming, SUNY, 1989.
Confucian Thought, Selfhood as Creative Transformation, Tu Wei-Ming, SUNY, 1985.
Thinking Through Confucius, David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, SUNY, 1987
Zhu Xi’s Reading of the Analects, Daniel K. Gardner, Columbia Univ. Press, 2003.
Yijing Studies
Zhouyi, the Book of Changes, Richard Rutt, Curzon, 1996.
Rediscovering the I Ching, Gregory Whincup, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1986.
Yijing, translated by Wu Jing-Nuan, Taoist Center, Washington DC, 1991.
Medicine
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. Kuriyama, Shigeshi. 1999. New York: Zone Books
"Asian Medicine - Tradition and Modernity" (Journal) (IASTAM) http://www.iastam.org/journal.htm
Innovation in Chinese Medicine, by Elisabeth Hsu, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN 0521800684
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine, Elisabeth Hsu, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN: 0521645425
For translations of Confucius, Mencius, and Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi); I recommend David Hinton, Pubished By Counterpoint, Washington DC.
For Chuang Tzu, Graham’s translation is considered standard in English.
For the Analects and Mencius, DC Lau’s translation is often quoted.
For translations of the Daodejing (Laozi), I recommend Hinton, Henricks, Lau, Ames, and Red Pine.
Below is the references section for a forth coming paper titled: Theater Exorcism & Martial Arts.
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Chen, Nancy N. (2003). Breathing Spaces, Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China. New York: Columbia.
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