Taijiquan journal
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Taijiquan Journal is a magazine about taijiquan (also known as t'ai chi ch'uan). Published in print quarterly from spring 2000 to fall 2004, it continues online as Taijiquan Journal News. They also actively maintain a blog.
Taijiquan Journal made its mark as a thoughtful, critical, journalistically sound and artistic magazine. Each issue of the print edition had editor's notes on a particular topic, letters, a cartoon "The Yang and the Rootless," columns, articles and reviews. An index appeared each fall in the year's final issue.
Quite distinct in tone from the average taijiquan or martial arts magazine, Taijiquan Journal topics included taijiquan profiles, how-to, history, application, philosophy, thought-pieces, opinions, essays, humor and well-balanced reviews of books and occasionally videos. The magazine was professionally designed and was nominated for an Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for "Best New Title."
Among masters featured in the print edition were Wu Tu'nan, Al Chungliang Huang, Maggie Newman, and Bataan Faigao.
Taijiquan Journal was edited by Barbara Davis, a noted taijiquan teacher and researcher based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Davis is also an associate editor of the Journal of Asian Martial Arts.
