"Adam D.Frank's evocative ethnography is more than a story of apprenticeship to masters of tai chi in Shanghai, China. John Nelson, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Director, Asian Studies Degree Program, University of San Francisco Frank's compelling ethnography to be a highly contemporary urban practice that can teach us a great deal about how culture travels in these postmodern times." ![]() "Both product and producer of modern identity for people around the globe, the martial art of taijiquan is shown in Adam D. Ward Keeler, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin He shows, with modesty and wit, that the form provides insight into Chinese conceptions of the self, the body, and social relations - all of which are put into question in contemporary China's rapid and at times uncomfortable transformation." ![]() Drawing on his considerable experience as both practitioner and observer of taijiquan,Frank examines the paradoxes and ironies that proliferate when an ancient tradition enters the international media scene. ![]() ![]() Frank notes that many people, Chinese and non-Chinese alike, look to martial arts masters to fulfill their fantasies of finding some font of wisdom, or source of power, and/or an Oriental essence.
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