Abstract
Markus Schiesser, a Swiss visual anthropologist and martial arts practitioner, had this story to tell about his search for a martial arts teacher in Shanghai:1
The first time I went to China. In the streets of Shanghai one evening I saw an old man, healthy energetic expression, erect body, walking into Renmin Gongyuan [People’s Park]. I was sure that he was going to play taijiquan so I followed him, eager to see and learn. Maybe he is a real master. [For a] long time I did not find out what he was doing. But finally I realized that he was just peeping on intimate kissing pairs. This was the first time I thought there might be something wrong about my views on China, especially the martial arts. [Correspondence with Markus Schiesser, August 4, 2002].
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It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
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Frank, A.D. (2006). Body Redux. In: Taijiquan and The Search for The Little Old Chinese Man. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601529_9
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