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Cover of The Ch’i Master of Mo Pai: The Teachings of John Chang by John Dixon

Later books and training manuals

The Ch’i Master of Mo Pai: The Teachings of John Chang

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Why it is on this list

An acupuncturist and palliative care practitioner in the UK going back over the existing record — the Ring of Fire footage and the accounts left by Chang’s two Western students — and setting it against what he knows from clinical practice. It is explicit that it adds no new information about Chang, which makes it a reading of the sources rather than another one, and a useful place to see what a practitioner outside the lineage makes of them.

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