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Plum Flower Press has temporarily ceased
operations for research abroad until September
2008, at which time we plan to reopen to offer our
customers even more of the same high quality,
difficult-to-obtain internal martial arts products.
We look forward to soon serving you again, with the
same quick shipping and friendly, detailed customer
service. Please visit the Plum Flower Press website
in September 2008 to see our new products! Until
then, feel free to view the Plum Flower Press
website to learn about the kind of items we offer.
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(Toll-Free
domestic Ordering Phone Number, Email Addresses,
International Access Phone Number, and physical
address information will be reinstated upon
reopening in 2008)
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Welcome to the Plum
Flower Press Web site. We are a martial arts book company
specializing in the Chinese 'internal' styles ( What
is an Internal Martial Art? ). We offer high quality
books and DVDs covering all aspects of Ba Gua Zhang (Pa Kua
Chang), Xing Yi Quan, and Tai Ji Quan, plus the most
reliable scholarly texts on Taoist thought, and
supplementary texts and DVDs on the development of explosive
whole body power, combat throwing, and Chin Na (seizing,
locking, and breaking of the joints).
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If you are interested
in the esoteric chinese martial arts, whether for
the incredible striking power or the taoist-based
health and longevity they promise, you have come to
the right place! At Plum Flower Press you will find
the most clearly-articulated and straight-forwardly
presented texts on the internal martial arts
available anywhere. We choose to offer a smaller
number of the very best and most useful texts
rather than a huge, disconcerting and confusing
number of titles of questionable value. We believe
in practice guided by the best available sources
rather than armchair martial arts informed by a
huge library of contradictory and misleading
information.
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Obtaining reliable, useful,
and comprehensible information is particularly
crucial with regards the internal martial styles,
since the mystery that surrounds them can be so
easily turned into a smokescreen in order to sell
books or videos or even worse, personal lessons,
with a promise of 'learning in x easy steps',
initiation into the 'true secrets of 200 year old
men' and the 'death touch from a distance'. Just
talk to the honest-to-goodness, down-and-dirty,
fighting veteran lineage-holders of Ba Gua, Xing Yi
and Tai Chi in China, and you will invariably find
that such notions as 'shooting one's chi' are
laughed at. Those who spout such magical notions
are considered to be the used car salesmen of
martial arts, out for the scam, and just plain
liars.
Plum Flower Press offers the
famous Pa Kua Chang Journal
from High View Publications. This
advertisement-free scholarly journal contains
interviews with lineage holders in Pa Kua Chang (Ba
Gua Zhang), Xing Yi Quan, and Tai Ji Quan, useful
and detailed internal martial arts practice tips,
and historical information. Unique amongst martial
arts publications, the Pa Kua Chang Journal
(published bi-monthly from November
1990-December '97) offers bias-free, reliable, and
valuable information unavailable anywhere else. The
Pa Kua Chang Journal is just one example of the
excellence you can expect from Plum Flower
Press.
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Plum Flower Press.
All rights reserved.
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