Taiji Quan Communication And Cultural Influence In The United States

In the background of building the nation with socialism culture, Tai-chi Chuan, as a cultural entity, is the realistic copy and presentative of traditional Chinese culture somehow. The spread of Tai-chi Chuan could play an important role to affect the international culture.In order to explore the statas-quo of spread and the impact on American culture for Tai-chi Chuan in United States, this research is based on "theory and analysis-theoretical hypothesis-empirical support",using documentation method, the oral history research method, survey, interviews, statistics, and the law of comparative study. We analyze its cultural effect, statas-quo of spread and compare the Tai-chi Chuan with Yoga and Taekwondo from Orient in the terms of culture, cross-culture, Tai-chi Chuan, as well as their mutual relations. Then we put forword the spread strategy.The conclusions are as follows:(1) The differences between Chinese and Western cultures derive from the perceptual and the rational, science and experience, the whole and the part. Between them, the premise of conflict and complementary provide the possibility for cross-cultural transmission of Tai-chi Chuan in United States;(2) Tai-chi Chuan belongs to the cultural symbols of physical perception, which is centred on harmony as the limit three-dimensional structural system, mainly including signified, signifier, and the media, with space for the representation. It is of the characteristics as body potential, ideographic, metaphor, the global.(3) There are some regional differences in the numbers of Tai-chi Chuan service organizations. Where Middle West is of the most and no significant difference among the rest is found. All the factors of impacting on the Tai-chi Chuan intercultural communication, in which population, population density, income and age are the most significant. The number of organizations is positively correlated with population and the percentage of middle-aged and elderly, while negative associated with population density and the percentage of population under18;(4) In United States, communicators, the local white, the older are the main groups as well as the major followers in which the most are highly-educated people, engaged in education and health care industry. Interpersonal communication and the modes of business organizations are the main transmissional ways. There is a dispart between Tai-chi Chuan technology appearance and cultural connotation, however, the fitness values and cultural ideas of Tai-chi Chuan get higher recognition;(5) There are some problems among the communicators, lacking communication is the one case in point; Otherwise, formal management organizations are rare, while the authentic or not is the core of the competition among those who spread the Tai-chi Chuan; The dissemination means is single, and the spread range is narrow. The content of distribution is mainly long routine, short of relevant criteria. The main purpose of practicing Tai-chi Chuan is fitness. The dissemination,"wide but not deep", flow in the representation not for the profound culture;(6) The cross-cultural communication strategy of Tai-chi Chuan should be reform and innovate in the material aspects, the management system level and the core values.