The Personal Feng Shui Manual by Kam Chuen Lam

The Personal Feng Shui Manual by Kam Chuen Lam

*A New York Times Bestseller*

The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasure.

For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers' lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show's popularity and relevance have only grown--more than eight million viewers tuned in to see the conclusion of the most recent season of The Bachelor.

Los Angeles Times journalist Amy Kaufman is a proud member of Bachelor Nation and has a long history with the franchise--ABC even banned her from attending show events after her coverage of the program got a little too real for its liking. She has interviewed dozens of producers, contestants, and celebrity fans to give readers never-before-told details of the show's inner workings: what it's like to be trapped in the mansion bubble; dark, juicy tales of producer manipulation; and revelations about the alcohol-fueled debauchery that occurs long before the Fantasy Suite.

Kaufman also explores what our fascination means, culturally: what the show says about the way we view so-called ideal suitors; our subconscious yearning for fairy-tale romance; and how this enduring television show has shaped society's feelings about love, marriage, and feminism by appealing to a marriage plot that's as old as the best of Jane Austen.

Master Lam Kam Chuen is a well-known Tai Chi and Chi Kung master as well as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. He was born in Hong Kong just after World War II and began studying in Chinese martial arts at a young age. He was taught in Choy Lee Fut, Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Iron Palm, as well as Tai Chi, under instructors such as Lung Tse Chung and Yim Sheung Mo (both of whom were followers of Ku Yue Chang, recognized throughout China as The King of Iron Palm). He subsequently went on to study Chinese medicine and became a certified bonesetter and herbalist, before opening a school and clinic in Hong Kong. He also studied Chi Kung, which is a strategy for cultivating internal energy in the body.

He began to design a new type of Tai Chi, currently known as Lam Style Tai Chi, using his medical expertise and knowledge of Chi Kung. In 1976, Master Lam became the first Tai Chi instructor to be appointed to teach in the Inner London Education Authority. He delivered the first European demonstration of Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung in 1987, which he learned in Beijing from Professor Yu Yong Nian, the world's foremost authority. He now works at The Lam Clinic in London's Chinatown, where he lectures and practices medicine.

Following the success of the BBC series The Way of the Warrior, Master Lam was asked to consult on the follow-up book, The Way of Harmony. The Way of Energy, a groundbreaking text published by Gaia Books that introduced the Zhan Zhuang concept of Standing Like a Tree, followed.

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ISBN 13	9780805055580
ISBN 10	0805055584
Title	The Personal Feng Shui Manual
Author	Kam Chuen Lam
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company Inc
Year published	1998-03-15
Number of pages	159
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