The Wudang Research Association is a boutique publisher and a video and audio producer. We publish books. We produce videos and audio recordings. And, we manage distribution across multiple platforms. Our focus is the teaching and practice of traditional Chinese internal martial arts, including history, philosophy, and culture.
Welcome.
We founded the company online in 1996. Our original purpose was to translate and publish works on traditional Wudang internal martial arts. We wanted to develop a library of materials for students. But not just any library. A dual-language library with both English and Chinese, maybe some videos. It was a fairly radical idea at the time. Not so much any more.
We were born digital. We published the first edition of this web site November 18, 1996. We set up the company using Compuserv and registered the site on EarthLink. So many requirements and costs not to mention dealing with character encoding. We were one of the first sites to have pages in both English and Chinese. At that time, Yahoo! was a directory of lists. Sites were submitted and put on the lists manually.
Our second publication was Prof. Liu’s definitive book on Wudang Qigong. We published the first edition in 1999 with English and Traditional Chinese on facing pages. It took two years to prepare. Happily, it sold out of two printings. We published a second edition in 2024. It includes cleaner images, updates to the translation, simplified Chinese characters, and separate sections for each language.
qigong book
Videos and Video Classes
Originally, we wanted to include video on the web site. But the technology was cumbersome. Getting something recorded was a major effort. Being able to display the videos was a problem, too.
In 2020, Terri began teaching live classes via a YouTube channel she set up. All the live streams were recorded. Currently, there are over 1k videos covering Wudang Qigong, Wudang Taiji, Wudang Taiji Sword, Wudang Dragon Sword, Yang Style Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi Five Elements, and Xingyi Twelve Animals along with various practice methods and principles.
Research and Publications
Ms. Morgan has focused on the dynamics of movement and mind-body connections for 40 years. Her research includes philosophy, physiology, applications, meditation, and how to translate/communicate the essential concepts of the internal arts from Chinese for English speakers. She translated research and wrote the section on Taiji for a medical textbook, published a guide for China travel, translated and prepared articles for magazine publication. Terri has written extensively on software and technical topics. She manages the company legal and financial matters, created and maintains the web site, and maintains the company archives.
Prof. Liu’s practice, research, and teaching over 60 years has focused on the health benefits of martial arts practice, the long history, practice methods and applications. His expertise in qin’na and qigong are recognized globally. Some of his research has been translated and published in the US. He contributed to the ‘Encyclopedia of Shaolin Martial Arts’ published in China. He has written extensively, including several books on Wudang Qigong, Wudang Taiji, Shaolin Qin’na, Xingyi Sword, and more.
Philosophy
Our philosophy is grounded in the traditional with a modern approach for students. There is no substitute for doing the work. It’s not easy. It’s not intended to be easy. That’s not the nature of the arts. Are there methods that everyone can learn, which will benefit health and physical condition, aid balance and breathing? Yes. There are many such methods. We ask our students to learn some of them.
There is a overarching theme to most of what we have here and just about everything we have done: respect for the teachers who taught us. They, like us, have spent countless hours in practice and study. It’s not something we do. It’s who we are.