Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China
2007 book by David A. Palmer
- Type
- Open-hand strikes
- Martial arts
- Qigong
- Classified as
- literary work
Chi kung at King's Kung-Fu
King's Kung-Fu and Tai Chi has taught 5 Animal 5 Family kung fu, tai chi and chi kung in Southern California since 1982. These original school pages cover this style:
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China is a 2007 book by David A. Palmer, published by Columbia University Press. It is about the "Qigong fever" in the late 20th century in China.
Patricia M. Thornton of the University of Oxford described it as "the first serious English-language history" of that topic.
Japanese terms for open-hand strikes
| Term | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 貫手 | nukite | spear hand |
| 掌底 | shoutei | palm heel; heel of the palm |
| 塵浄水 | chirijouzui | ceremonious clapping and rubbing of the palms |
| 八卦掌 | hakkeshou | eight trigrams palm; ba gua zhang |
| 張り手 | harite | slapping the opponent with the open hand |
| 猫騙し | nekodamashi | slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him |
| 叩き込み | hatakikomi | hatakikomi; slapdown |
| 素首落とし | sokubiotoshi | head chop down |
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q113561084 (CC0); text quoted from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.