Biography of the Author

??Master Paul F.N. Tam (1935- ) was born in Hong Kong. However, his place of nativity is Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, China. Guangdong Province, China. He graduated from National Taiwan University of the Republic of china, and then returned to Hong Kong. Thereafter,?he was devoted to teaching as well as compiling secondary school textbooks for 28 years.

??He was a disciple of late Master Lung Chi-cheung in his childhood and teens, practising extremely hard on Kung-fu as well as traditional Chinese orthopaedics. He is competent in a great variety of Kung-fu branches, including Northern Shaolin, Tai-chi Chuan, Choa-li-fo, Zhou Jia etc.

??He was the instructor in a large number of Kung-fu training courses organized by different industrial and commercial institutions in Hong Kong. He had been successively appointed secretary, executive and competition adjudicator of the Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts Association for more than 10 years, having contributed immensely to the development of Kung-fu in Hong Kong. In recent years, he was also elected chairman of Northern Shaolin Kuo Yu-cheung Memorail Association. Many of his students are regularly invited to be instructors of Tai-chi Chuan courses by the Urban Council of Hong Kong.

It can be said for sure that with Master Tam's settling down in California, U.S.A. in 1989. Tai-chi Chuan has been gaining an even wider global popularity.

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