Book Review: Steal My Art, The life and times of a Tai Chi Master TT Liang

[ngokfei]

Steal My Art (The Life and Times of a tai Chi Master)
by Olson, Stuart A.; Russell, Jonathan
North Atlantic Books , 1/31/2002 , Paperback
ISBN: 1556434162
$15.95,

Description:

Now 101 years old, Master T. T. Liang came to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1960s to introduce t’ai chi to America. His life story is full of the stuff that makes a great martial arts adventure: a career as a high-ranking government official, street fights and shootouts, opium dens and prostitutes, mystical martial arts masters and monks — the story of a life lived to the absolute maximum. Twenty-five photographs add to the captivating life story of this great t'ai chi master.

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[ngokfei]

found this one:

It is said that you never forget your first lover. I don't know about that. But I will never forget my first taiji teacher in Taiwan. Liang T'ungstai (Liang Tongcai) was his name and T.T. Liang was the sobriquet he answered to...We visited Professor Zheng Manqing's (Cheng Man-c'ing) home on Sunday mornings in 1959-62, a class for Zheng's seniors at which Liang occasionally translated. He also was an enabler par excellance, introducing me to several great boxers and, as translator, accompanying me to practice with them...A good man, sometimes quiet and reserved, Liang had a ready wit and his English was impeccable. We spent many hours together and got on famously. In fact, I knew him, his history and personality, better than I knew my own father (Journal of Asian Martial Arts (Volume 12, #2, 2003), May 1, 2003).


for all those who have had the honor or bad luck to have learned from an individual who is now late in their years or just plain had a very interesting life I recommend this book for its "The Old Rogue" section.

some parts very humorous while others I can't imagine how Mr. Olson could include such personal and embarassing items in a book.

[mickey]

Greetings,

It is a good, fun, read. I thought the enema incident was funny.

mickey