Wu Tunan is sometimes called the "Methuselah of Chinese martial arts," as this master has lived for over a hundred years. Mongol by nationality, he was born at the end of the 19th century in a family of hereditary military men, thanks to the connections of his parents at the imperial court, he received military, civil and medical education from the best teachers of that time. After the bourgeois-democratic revolution, he was engaged both in teaching humanitarian subjects in schools and universities, and in the practice of martial arts. This book was published in 1928 and combined classical knowledge of taijiquan and new approaches to teaching them at that time. This book was actually the very first textbook of taijiquan intended for the general public...