Tai Chi Ch’uan for Health and Self Defense
Master T.T. Liang
This is one of the first books I picked up, a 1977 edition for $5.95, and I probably got a discount from the new age bookstore that ordered it special for me. A pioneer on the east coast (Boston and surrounds) Master Liang’s book is very simple, very clean. If you are just starting out, and want to learn some of the terminology, and see some of the first instructional pictures for western consumption, check out this book. It will later be a nice touchstone, when you are in the ponder over some contemporary author’s scholarly regurgitation of Liang, Cheng, or Jou.
