Many people in both East and West only know that Taiji is a health exercise, but they do not know that Taiji is also a martial art, good for self defense. Just during the last couple of months, I have encountered many people, including Caucasians and to my surprise also many Chinese and Chinese Americans, who have the above belief. When I mentioned to them not only that Taiji is a martial art, it was invented as a fighting art [1], they were startled to learn that.
One reason for the above mis-conception is that they know or at least have seen that Taiji involves slow and soft movements, and they thought that such slow and soft movements cannot be good for self defense. This article provides a short explanation of why Taiji is an effective martial art.
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Multiple Solutions: Implications for Social and Political Analysis
From our high school and college education in math and physics, as well as in other science courses, we know that for many problems, there could be multiple solutions, and often one solution is not necessarily better than the other solutions. This article discusses the implications for social and political analysis when we take into account that there could be multiple solutions to any particular social or political problem.
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