tgl books

21/06/2024

I am still having trouble posting the new sales to my website, with the migrated server. And I can't seem to put in the correct link directly to the sales page at Lulu. So, you can try going to www.lulu.com and doing a search for Zhang Wenguang's Chaquan volume II. Sorry 'bout this, I'm working on it.

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12/06/2024

Coming very soon. The completion of my translation of Zhang Wenguang's book on Chaquan. This includes the styles of Huaquan, Paoquan, Hongquan, and Tuiquan. As usual, soft cover, hard cover, Ebook, and PDF editions will be available as soon as I have seen the final proofs.

09/05/2023

Now that I have completed my two semi autobiographical books, I can relax and go back to translating. I am just finishing up helping with formatting for Byron Jacob’s Dragon Body, Tiger Spirit: A Translation and Explanation of the Classic Texts of Xingyi Quan (available soon).
So - I am looking for a good book on Chuojiao. I prefer drawings, as when books have photos they are usually not clear enough to scan, and it is impossible to get the original files from the authors. I have watched a lot of Chuojiao at our practices in Beijing, and it is definitely a style that merits a book in English. If you post a suggested title, author, and date, I can find it and check it out.

26/02/2023

The E- Reader edition is indeed available. It is not up in the bigger shops like Amazon and Barnes&Noble quite yet, but you can get it from Lulu.

This is the Ereader Edition of Shadowboxing in Shanghai. (There was an accidental access to an early proof in 2022. This is the final published edition.)

25/02/2023

A few photos that didn't make it into the book, to give you a taste of it. On the frame of a Chen Taijiquan routine, the book has memories of the 1980s and 1990s in Shanghai, concepts about training, a bit about the history of Shanghai, and anything else that popped into my head during the twelve years it took to write. People who are not even interested in Taijiquan may well enjoy it.

24/02/2023

The soft cover book (350 pages, US$32.22), Ereader edition (US$15.50), and PDF Edition (224 pages, US$12.10) are set up and ready to buy from Lulu. The soft cover book will gradually show up in global distributors as it goes through the system.
The hard cover book will be ready soon, I just wanted to get the final proof of the soft cover before paying for a hard cover proof. It will be US$53, it is not the super special paper and printing process that I did for Beijing Bittersweet.
If you go to Lulu by midnight Feb 24, the code BOOKIT15 will give you 15% off the price of the soft cover book.

24/02/2023

https://www.lulu.com/shop/andrea-falk/shadowboxing-in-shanghai/paperback/product-8gedv6.html?page=1&pageSize=4

This is both a description of the first and third forms of a Chen Taijiquan that came from Huan Dahai, who taught the Taijiquan as it came from Chen Yanxi. It is also training and teaching notes about Taijiquan and a memoir about living in suburban Shanghai in the 1990s.

15/02/2023

Done soon, very soon. Absolutely last proof going in this week. Shadowboxing in Shanghai should be available by the end of the month.

13/01/2023

I just noticed that I have accidentally gotten an early proof of the E-reader edition of Shadowboxing in Shanghai up and selling on global marketplaces such as Amazon. Do not buy it! I have it set to private at my printers, so thought that it was not for sale yet. The book will be ready very soon, please wait. I will post here and on my website when it is complete. If you have bought the E-reader book, please email or message me, and we can figure out a way to refund you.

23/12/2022

I have become obsessed with maps of Shanghai , so Shadowboxing in Shanghai is slightly delayed. I will finish for the new year, I promise.

01/11/2022

I have just found out that Scribe has most of my E-books available online for free. I have filed for copyright infringement, and would like to remind everyone that since covid travel restriction struck (2020), I have no teaching income. I have been working full-time on writing and translating, and that is my income. You can get the books for free (hopefully not for much longer) but is it fair? The reader editions are really not very expensive at all. Master Di Guoyong also gets royalties from his books that I translated. Just saying.

01/11/2022

Plum Publications: "We at Plum freely admit that we are big fans of Andrea Falk, in her roles as martial artist, writer and translator. It is this last role that we celebrate today.
When we started Plum, almost 30 years ago, there were so many important texts available in Chinese that we never thought we would see in English and, of course, there still are (many of which we represent). But Falk, and a scattered few, are slowly chipping away at the canon, and this new book is a great example of her work.
Thanks to her translation, Zhang Wenguang’s book on Chaquan, and his smaller text on Tan Tui Kick Drills, (published as one volume) are now available, in English, on Plum. As is typical of Andrea’s work, it is not just a xeroxed copy, but contains additional notes, prefaces, discussions, and a glossary. The format, in English, is accompanied by both pinyin and Chinese character names for each move.
We are just so pleased that the literary martial library continues to grow with quality books like this one.”

27/09/2022

https://www.lulu.com/shop/andrea-falk/zhang-wenguangs-chaquan/paperback/product-wdg557.html?page=1&pageSize=4

This book on the traditional style of Chaquan was authored by one of the great modern masters – Zhang Wenguang. He was the head of the wushu department of the Beijing Physical Culture Institute at the time (early 1980s), and got the entire team of teachers involved in the writing and photography o...

08/08/2022

I've been working on a side project, a simple translation, as a break from writing, and it should be completed fairly soon. It is a book on Chaquan, one of my favourite styles, by Zhang Wenguang, one of my favourite martial artists. It is old school, from the 1980s, with those cool 80s drawings. The upside of not travelling at all – high productivity.

27/07/2022

I am getting a lot of work done on books, so look forward to Shadowboxing in Shanghai sooner than planned.

03/05/2022

https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/andrea-falk/beijing-bittersweet/paperback/product-ykn9g8.html?page=1&pageSize=4
This works, even though the image below says 403, the link goes to the book.

03/05/2022

It is done! Beijing Bittersweet is now available directly at Lulu, althouth I can't seem to get the link to work. You can go to my website www.thewushucentre.ca and click through from there. It will take a while for it to show up in the big booksale websites like Amazon. (to tell the truth, I get more of the money when you get it through my site, directly from Lulu)
It looks pretty good, and was quite the covid project!

21/12/2021

Beijing Bittersweet is getting closer and closer to completion. It will be out early in 2022. I have just sent it off to some friends for holiday reading.