Jianquan Taijiquan Association
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The Jianquan Taijiquan Association (also spelled as Chien-ch'uan T'ai Chi Ch'uan Association, Chian Chuan Taichi Chuan Association and in Chinese: 鑑泉太極拳社) is a well known school teaching Wu style t'ai chi ch'uan.
It was founded in 1935 by Wu Chien-ch'üan (Wu Jianquan, 吳鑑泉, 1870-1942) in Shanghai, and in the beginning operating out of the Shanghai YMCA. The Association went underground during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) due to the ban on Chinese martial arts instituted by the Japanese. In 1942, when Wu Chien-ch'üan died, his oldest son Wu Kung-i became head of the Association, eventually moving its headquarters to Hong Kong where it has continued uninterrupted to this day. Wu Chien-ch'üan's daughter Wu Ying-hua and his senior disciple Ma Yueh-liang took over leadership in of the branch in Shanghai. The Shanghai school fell under the was ban on "feudalistic practices" with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Only in 1980 was the Shanghai branch officially reopened.
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- Wu Kung-tsao. Wu Family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (吳家太極拳), Hong Kong, 1980, Toronto 2006, ISBN 0-9780499-0-X
- Journal of Asian Martial Arts Volume 15, No. 1, 2006. Via Media Publishing, Erie Pennsylvania USA. ISSN 1057-8358
- Taijiquan and the search for the little old Chinese man 2003 by Adam Dean Frank, Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Digital Repository
