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Tung Ying-chiehTung Ying-chieh (Dong Yingjie in Pinyin, 董英杰 1898-1961) was an influential teacher of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. He was born in China's Hebei province. A senior student of Yang Ch'eng-fu (1883-1936), he originally studied Wu/Hao style T'ai Chi Ch'uan as a young man. Tung also studied with Ch'eng-fu's older brother Yang Shao-hou (1862-1930) and was the founder of Dong Tai Chi. In Shaohou's classes he was an older classmate of the Wu style's Wu Kung-i (1900-1970) and Wu Kung-tsao (1902-1983), and the men remained respected colleagues in later years. Following the trend of many famous T'ai Chi masters who moved south during the War years, Tung moved to Hong Kong in 1939 and taught Yang Style there. The Dong (Tung) style as it eventually developed included training features researched by Tung Ying-chieh, both with Yang Ch'eng-fu and independently. He wrote a book called "T'ai Chi Ch'uan Explained" which has recently been translated from Chinese into English. It has been reprinted and updated continuously since the first publication by the Dong (Tung) Family. Tung Ying-chieh was followed by son Dong Hu Ling (董虎岭) and his grandsons: the Tung family still teach T'ai Chi Ch'uan in Asia, Hawaii, North America and Europe. External Links
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