Translators Note:
Lu Ta-lus classic essay on Master Wu Kung Yi and the Wu-Chen fight was first published in 1971, just
after Master Wu Kung Yi passed away. It was reprinted in 1986, following the release of Fei-ho or Flying
Crane, a modern day martial arts film made for the overseas Chinese audience, in order to explain the
significance of a documentary film clip of the famous Wu-Chen fight, which was featured in this film.
Chen Ke-fu who was then around sixty, starred in this film.
Since 1971, much has happened to the Wu family. After the Cultural Revolution, Master Wu Kung Cho,
the younger son of Master Wu Chien Chuan, was finally allowed to leave China and rejoin the Wu family
in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong he was busy revising and updating his famous classic on Wu Family Tai
Chi Chuan originally published in 1935. A revised edition was reissued in 1980, and again in 1982 with
photographs of both Master Wu Kung Yi and Master Wu Chien Chuan. Master Wu Kung Cho passed
away in Hong Kong in 1983. Master Wu Ying Hua, the only daughter of Master Wu Chien Chuan, who
with her husband Master Ma Yueh Liang had been directing the Shanghai Chien Chuan Tai Chi Chuan
Association, passed away in Shanghai in June of this year (1996). Master Wu Tai Kwei, the eldest son of
Master Wu Kung Yi, who was instrumental in helping spread Wu Family Tai Chi Chuan to other parts of
Asia, including Singapore, Macau, the Philippines and Japan, passed away in 1970, and Master Wu Tai
Chi, Kung Yis youngest son, took over from him. Master Wu Tai Chi opened branch associations in
Malaysia and in 1975 went to Canada in response to invitations from numerous overseas Chinese
groups to establish a Chien chuan Tai Chi Chuan Branch Association in Canada. In 1976, Master Wu Tai
Chi returned to Hing Kong and turned over the branch association that he had established to Master Wu
Tai Kweis eldest son, Sifu Wu Kwong Yu. Sifu Wu Kwong Yu or Eddie Wu, as he is known in the West, is
the fifth generation master in the direct lineage and currently directs the Wu Family Tai Chi Chuan in
North America and Europe. The North American headquarters are situated in Toronto, Canada. Master
Wu Tai Chi passed away in 1993, and presently Master Wu Kung Yis daughter, Master Wu Yan Hsia,
together with her husband Master Kwok Hsiao Jong direct the Hong Kong Chien Chuan Tai Chi Chuan
Associations headquarters at Jordon Road; while Master Wu Tai Sin, Master Wu Kung Chos younger
son, directs the Hong Kong branch association which has moved to Moreton Terrace
On October 14 and 15, 1995, the First International Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan Convention was held at the
Metro Convention Centre in Toronto. More than one hundred and seventy Wu stylists from all over the
world, including ten delegates from Hawaii, participated in this momentous event which featured six
generations of the Wu Family. An international Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan Federation was formed to
facilitate the sharing and exchange of information and expertise, including future books and videos of the
Wu Family.