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“If we carry on the original purpose of Taiji Quan, If we remember that the spine of the art is that it is first and foremost a martial art... The backbone of the art must remain what it was meant to be; if we do away with sparring, then no matter what other things we emphasize, eventually we will not be doing Taiji Quan anymore.”

“Therefore, one can see that a great need to develop modernized and systematized training programs, while preserving the purity of the traditional art itself, exists today. For this to happen we need to find legitimate ways to modernize the training but, very importantly, it must never be westernized.”

I've heard Kazuo Ishiguro's previous works are fantastic, surpassing "The Buried Giant."

If the prose within is any indicator, I will have to also read his other works upon finishing this; though I will admit, the fantasy elements during the historical Migration Era of Britain certainly hits a core spot of interest.