In Memoriam - Da Liu 1906 - 2000

Da Liu, a noted author and one of the pioneers teaching T'ai Chi Ch'uan in the USA died July 28th 2000 in New York City. He was 94 years old. In 1928, he began his study at 18 under Sun Lu-Tang, founder of the Sun School, Kiangsu Province. He later changed to the Yang style under Master Li Li Giu in Hunan Province. Later he traveled to China's Szechwan Province, where he studied with a number of masters at Ch'ing Cheng Mountain's Taoist holy place. He came to the US in 1956, and in the late 1950's and 1960's Liu taught T'ai Chi Ch'uan at the UN where he worked in the Chinese section as a calligrapher and translator. He also taught at the China Institute and YWCA. He later taught at The Cathedral School Of Saint John The Divine, and at the Riverside Church and Columbia University's Teachers College, NYC. He was past President of the T'ai Chi Ch'uan Society of New York. He wrote 7 books on Taoism, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Meditation and the I Ching, which have been translated into many languages. See T'ai Chi Magazine Vol 24 No. 5