Below you will find a consolidated, annotated register of the primary documents and secondary scholarship cited across this site. Please consult the glossary for a list of terms and their definitions. Some information on the research methods and conventions is also available.
Source Register
Primary sources
Classical manuscripts and archival documents, with archive and shelfmark where held.
Chéng Zōngyóu (程宗猷; 1561–1636). 1621. “Gēngyú shèngjì (耕餘剩技; Skills Beyond Farming).” Manuscript.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Huáng Zōngxī (黃宗羲). 1669. “Wáng Zhēngnán mùzhìmíng (王征南墓誌銘; Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan).” Manuscript.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Dài Lóngbāng (戴龍邦). 1750. “Liùhé quán xù (六合拳序; Preface to the Six-Harmonies Fist Manual).” Manuscript.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Huáng Bǎijiā (黃百家). 1928. “Nèijiā quánfǎ (內家拳法; Methods of the Internal School), in Qīngshǐgǎo (清史稿).” Manuscript.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Wú Gōngzǎo (吳公藻). 1935. Tàijíquán jiǎngyì (太極拳講義). Hunan Martial Arts Training Institute
(湖南國術訓練所).
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Patrick Olivelle. 1998. The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Oxford University Press.
Swami Veda Bharati. 2001. Yoga-Sūtras of Patañjali with the Exposition of Vyāsa,
Volume II: Sādhana-pāda. Motilal Banarsidass.
Rolf W. Giebel. 2005. The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra. BDK English Tripiṭaka. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research.
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal. 2006. Mahāmudrā: The Moonlight — Quintessence of Mind and
Meditation. 2nd ed. Wisdom Publications.
Qī Jìguāng. 〔1560s; rev. c. 1584〕. Jìxiào xīnshū (紀效新書).
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Secondary scholarship
Modern scholarship, reference works and tabulations.
Yin Cheng Gong Fa North America. n.d. The Song of Push Hands (Dǎshǒu gē 打手歌).
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Táng Háo (唐豪), and Gù Liúxīn (顧留馨). 1964. Tàijíquán yánjiū (太極拳研究). Bailing, Hong Kong.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Henning, Stanley E. 1981. “The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective.” Military Affairs 45 (4): 173–79.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Wile, Douglas. 1983. Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions. Sweet Ch’i Press.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Henning, Stanley E. 1994. “Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan.” Journal of the Chen Style Taijiquan Research Association
of Hawaii 2 (3).
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Wile, Douglas. 1996. Lost T’ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch’ing Dynasty. State University of New York Press.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Zhang Yun. 1998. The Art of Chinese Swordsmanship: A Manual of Taiji Jian. Shambhala Publications.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Wile, Douglas. 1999. T’ai Chi’s Ancestors: The Making of an Internal Martial
Art. Sweet Ch’i Press.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Kennedy, Brian, and Elizabeth Guo. 2005. Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical
Survey. North Atlantic Books.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Wells, Marnix. 2005. Scholar Boxer: Chang Naizhou’s Theory of Internal Martial
Arts and the Evolution of Taijiquan. North Atlantic Books.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Zhang Yun. 2009. The Complete Taiji Dao: The Art of the Chinese Saber. Blue Snake Books.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Lorge, Peter. 2012. Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First
Century. Cambridge University Press.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Sasamori Takemi, and M. Hague. 2016. Bushido and Christianity.
Cited in: Aiki and Internal Training
Wile, Douglas. 2016. “Fighting Words: Four New Document Finds Reignite Old
Debates in Taijiquan Historiography.” Martial Arts Studies 1: 17–35.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Ronald S. Green. 2017. The Shingon Ajikan, Meditation on the Syllable ’A’: An
Analysis of Components and Development.
Zhang Yun, David Ho, Peter Capell, and Susan
Darley. 2017. Tàijíquán Classics: The Essential Translation and
Explanation with Commentary on History and Culture. YCGF North America.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Amdur, Ellis. 2018. It Ain’t Necessarily So: Banquo’s Ghost.
Cited in: Aiki and Internal Training
Zhang Yun, and Zhao Zeren. 2019. Meditations on Tàijíquán. Beijing Science and Technology Press.
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice
Pradeep P. Gokhale. 2020. The Yogasūtra of Patañjali: A New Introduction to the
Buddhist Roots of the Yoga System. Routledge India.
Chu, T. Julian. 2023. “Unraveling the Mystery Surrounding the Origins of
Taijiquan by New Historical Materials in Tang Village,
China.” Journal of Taiji Science 2 (1).
Cited in: An Overview of Wú Tàijíquán Practice