Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong: Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook
Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong is a 1995 internal manual by Jiang Hao. It documents a hard-qigong system of standing work, breath training, body conditioning, demonstrations, and correspondence teaching.
Jiang Hao 蒋浩
Jiang Hao, also listed as Jiang Mengchun, compiled a 1995 hard-qigong manual and was identified there as the founder of Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong and a student of Yang Guozhong.
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong is a 1992 Chinese manual that records a seven-part conditioning method, its Daoist lineage story, traditional theory, safety guidance, and external-qi claims.
Xu Yousheng 许有声
Xu Yousheng was the author and publicizer of Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong, a 1992 manual that records a seven-part qigong and conditioning practice, its training theory, cautions, and claimed effects.
Guo Lin 郭林
Guo Lin was a Chinese painter, educator, cancer survivor, and creator of New Qigong Therapy. Beginning in 1971, she taught coordinated walking, specialized breathing, mental regulation, self-massage, and group practice in Beijing’s public parks. Her method became one of China’s most influential cancer-rehabilitation qigong systems and helped create a patient-led social model that later spread throughout China and internationally.
Liu Yafei 劉亞非
Liu Yafei is a Chinese physician and medical qigong specialist who continued and substantially expanded the Neiyanggong system associated with her father, Liu Guizhen. She transformed a practice centered largely on quiet breathing and meditation into a progressive system containing static exercises, moving forms, therapeutic adaptations, and international teacher training. Her work made Neiyanggong one of the most developed surviving systems of institutional medical qigong.
Liu Guizhen 劉貴珍
Liu Guizhen was one of the principal founders of modern medical qigong in the People’s Republic of China. During the 1950s, he transformed a privately transmitted rural practice called Neiyanggong into a standardized clinical method taught through hospitals, books, and national training programs. His work helped establish “qigong” as the modern umbrella term for Chinese breathing, posture, movement, and mental-regulation practices.
Martial Virtue Series
The Martial Virtue Series by Dustin Shane Bunnell examines Wude as a practical ethical tradition. Across its volumes, the series connects martial skill with character, responsibility, restraint, leadership, investigation, and conduct in modern life.
Sacred Cows and Broken Noses: Confronting Martial Arts Misinformation
Sacred Cows and Broken Noses examines thirty common myths, assumptions, and reasoning errors found throughout martial arts culture. It evaluates Qi, forms, Chi Sao, sparring, lineage, conditioning, self-defense, and combat through clear definitions, functional training, resistance, and pressure testing.
Qigong and the Politics of Breath: From Marxism to Mysticism
Qigong and the Politics of Breath examines how ancient Chinese breath, movement, meditation, and health practices were reconstructed under Marxism, transformed during Qigong Fever, and remystified in the West. It presents Qigong as a living practice shaped by politics, science, culture, and human need.