What is the best approach in teaching the important fine points of Taiji? Should the instructor not focus on these fine points, as new students already have their hands full in learning the rudimentary movements of the forms? Or should the instructor remind the students of these fine points because these fine points are important from either the health perspective or the martial arts perspective, and it is more difficult to undo a bad habit and replace it with a new one? Thus there are two general approaches to teaching Taiji. The major difference in the two approaches is the amount of emphasis on several basic but important fine points when performing the forms. This article discusses some of these fine points and the approach that I favor.
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Some Basic But Important Fine Points in Performing Taiji Forms
October 2010
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Highlights of Forced Labor Litigation in Japan of Chinese Laborers
October 2010
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An International Education Conference on “History of Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War: 1931-1945” was held on October 8-10, 2010 in Mays Landing, NJ. [1] The conference presented an excellent program with speakers from the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, and Europe. There were several highlights from the conference. This article reports on one of these highlights. It was a presentation by Kang Jian, a Chinese woman lawyer based in Beijing who was invited by the Japanese lawyers to help represent the Chinese plaintiffs in lawsuits in Japan.
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Diao Yu Tai Student Movement: Recollection 40 Years Later
Recently the territorial dispute over the Diao Yu Islands (or Diao Yu Tai in Chinese and Senkaku Islands in Japanese) have made front page news in newspapers. This dispute dates back to many years, and almost exactly 40 years ago this dispute led to a very widespread global Chinese student movement, known as the Diao Yu Tai or DYT Student Movement. From the very beginning of that DYT Student Movement, it was recognized that this is not just a minor territorial dispute between two countries, but it has much larger significance involving (1) the revival of Japanese militarism, (2) American imperialism and collusion with Japan to weaken China, as represented by the newly established People’s Republic of China, and (3) the weak and incompetent Republic of China government more interested in appeasing to the military interests of Japan and the U.S., instead of standing up for China’s national sovereignty. This article briefly summarizes the DYT Student Movement that began 40 years ago and discusses the true significance of the dispute over the Diao Yu Islands.
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