After I finished writing my own Tai Chi book*, I wanted to read another novel. I found a couple of fictional Taijiquan books on Amazon and in this blogpost by Violet Li. Then I started reading Taichi: The Story of a Chinese Master in America*. The book was written by Marc Meyer, who is a […]
As I practice Taijiquan, I am constantly surrounded by Chinese words. They appear in books, on school walls, in form names. And at some point, my curiosity took over. So I started learning Chinese. Just a little bit: a beginner course, Duolingo. I take it easy. I don’t have plans to go to China anytime […]
When I wrote my Tai Chi novel Push Hands*, I started describing all the characters. I did not want to randomly assign names, I wanted them to mean something. And finding the right Chinese names turned out to be quite a joy. A little inside joke, if you will. Chinese names carry a lot of […]
For years, I have been writing about Taijiquan. A dictionary. Blog posts. Reference articles. All of them non-fiction, all of them trying to get things right. Then an idea hit. An idea for a Tai Chi novel! When I started writing, it was strange at first. To write fictionally. To just go with the flow. […]
If you read my blog regularly (there is a new post at least every Friday), you might know that I struggle with Tai Chi Pushing Hands (Tui Shou). And I know that a lot of people just keep saying “keep doing it” and “you only learn about it by doing it”, I am the kind […]
