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Tai chi teacher Xie Bingcan dies

May 21, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Xie Bingcan

Xie Bingcan, born in 1934 in Yuyao, China, died last month in Redmond of pancreatic cancer. He was 85. 

Xie taught tai chi for over 40 years—he was also a practitioner of Chinese medicine and a member of the International Medical Qigong Society. Right until the time of his passing, Xie was traveling regularly to China to teach, even as he carried on his lessons in Bellevue.

Xie Jian described his father as upright, kind, hardworking, and thrifty.

“While his every word and deed are not for us to follow, our venerable teacher gave us not only the method of taijiquan but even more so the truth at the level of ideas and soul. His spirit inspires us and will lead us onward,” Xie Jian wrote in a eulogy.

Due to the pandemic, no memorial service is planned at this time. 

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Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 21 | MAY 23 - MAY 29

Comments

  1. Chris says

    May 30, 2020 at 12:19 am

    This is a tragic loss for his family and friends, and for the world Tai Chi community. Master Xie practiced Tai Chi obsessively for over 60 years, with some of the greatest experts in recorded history. We were honored to know him.

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