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Art detail from Beyond the Great Mountains, A visual poem about China by Ed Young, San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 2005.

Quote from The Essence of T'ai Chi Ch'uan translated and edited by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn, Robert Amacker and Susan Foe, Berkeley, CA, Blue Snake Books, 1979.

Photos by Ken Van Sickle courtesy of Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).

About Us/ Introduction to Tai Chi  Returning Home, painting by Shitao, ca.1695, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

About Us/Lineage Cheng Man-Ching photo by Ken Van Sickle courtesy of Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).

Ed Young photo by Gina Randazzo.

Classes/Class Descriptions Cats Are Cats by Ed Young, New York, NY, Philomel Books, 1988.

Classes/Guidelines Chinese woodcut: Qigong exercise to treat heart pain. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection. 

Xiuzhen miyao, a gymnastic (daoyin/qigong) text of unknown origin, was rediscovered and published with a preface by Wang Zai in 1513 (8th year of the Zhengde reign period of the Ming dynasty). It records 49 exercises. This illustration depicts Xianren ba jian (The Immortal draws his sword), a technique used to treat any form of pain in the heart.