River's Chi House

Mao and Deng living it up. I recommend " A Complete Guide to Chi-Kung " by Daniel Reid to anyone interested in learning the basics about chi-kung. http://www.danreid.org/about-daniel-reid-writer-chinese-medicine-tcm-health-tao-taosim.htm Chi-kung is also written as chi-gung, and qi-gong. In this book he writes about the history of chi-kung in China. He has this to say about it's modern use among China's elite. "More recently,after the communist takeover of China, and particularly during the Cultural Revolution, radical revolutionaries once again threatened a wholesale annihilation of everything associated with traditional Chinese culture, including medicine and chi-gung. However, like before, chi-gung was spared from oblivion due to the support of Chinese leaders themselves. Chairman Mao was quoted as saying that Chinese civilization's two greatest gifts to the world would prove to be Chinese food and Chinese medicine, a prediction that is certainly proving ...