This book is compiled for the purpose of spreading China's scientific health-preservation culture, meeting the needs of those learning Health Qigong, and helping people precisely understand and correctly use the common terms used in Qigong.Over 300 terms regarding both Health Qigong and relevant health maintenance, including new and frequently-used terms. are collected in this book, In addition two appendices: the Common Acupoints Table for Health Qigong and Illustrations of Human Acupoints serve as references for readers.

This series introduces eight kinds of simple and practical traditional health maintenance exercises, especially focusing on the traditional and classical exercises as well as the practical and effective health preservation skills in clinical and teaching practice, including eight trigrams boxing, five-animal exercise, muscle-bone strengthening exercise, relaxation exercise, free and easy exercise, tianzhu guidance exercise, standing exercise, soft and relaxed exercise, etc. The book covers the exercise's historical origin, operation, effect, warding off disease and clinical application.

Wang Guangxi, whose pen name is Lu Cao, was born in Xixia, Henan province in 1941 and died in 2008. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Henan University. He had served as a researcher in the Literature Research Institute of Henan Academy of Social Science, a fellow in the Henan Research Institute of Culture and History, standing director of Modern Chinese Literature Research Society and deputy dean of Wushu Culture Research Center, Physical Education Institute, Zhengzhou University. His life was devoted to modern literature and wushu culture research, and his works include Buddhism and Chinese Modern Poetry, Biography of Zuo Zongtang, Kong Fu-Culture of Chinese Wushu Circles, Chinese Soldier, Chinese Wushu and Wushu Spirit and Central Plaint Culture •Wushu.

A Chinese-English Foundation Course for Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan is the basic courses for learning A Chinese-English Foundation Course for Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan, which is also an outcome of Handan College teaching and studying Tai Chi Chuan in recent years. It summarizes the origin and development, basic features and skills of Tai Chi Chuan, sums up the origin and development of Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan, elaborates the skill requirement and practicing procedures of Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan, describes 28 series of Tai Chi Chuan skills and selects the classical theory about Tai Chi Chuan and the practice pictures of Yang Chengdu, the master of Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan.

This book is specially designed for those who have practiced Taiji and want to know a little more about the culture, history, philosophy and language behind the exercise, or who have interest in learning basic Chinese but don’t have sufficient time or desire to learn it through a more traditional approach of learning a language.

Zhao Yanxia: Chinese teacher at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
Liu Dongqing: Chinese language expert from Beijing Union University.
Dr Mark Langweiler: Taiji Expert from Faculty of Life Science and Education at the University of South Wales.