Talk:Qigong fever

Rewrite of Qigong Fever article
Given that a more comprehensive treatment of "qigong fever" is already in the Qigong history article and summarized in the Qigong article, I suggest that the Qigong fever article simply provide a well-written summary. As such, I provided an initial draft summary and removed text, currently in need of significant editing, provided below for review, discussion, and rewrite. I suggest that some of this text may be appropriate in the Qigong history article, with a solid rewrite.


 * Text for Review and Rewrite:


 * Precondition for "qigong fever" was created by popularity of beliefs in parapsychological abilities (特异功能), reports on which started to abound since 1979 publication on a Sichuan youth "able to read with his ear" (сf. Zhang Baosheng). Mass qigong education in PRC was advocated by a prominent scientist Qian Xuesen (1911-2009), who expressed enthusiasm concerning scientific research of the related phenomena of mysterious healing and other anomalous human feats.


 * Powerful trigger for widespread of the qigong vogue was made by Yan Xin 严新 (born 1949, Sichuan), whose activity was tested in several scientific laboratories of Beijing: researchers at Qinghua University publicized results of experiments showing that Yan's "external qi" had changed the molecular structure of water at a distance of 2,000 km. In early 1987, Yan was first to initiate ‘qi-emitting conferences’ (daigong baogao), held nationwide and including miraculous healing and collective trance sessions. The conferences took place at large auditoriums and sport stadiums, lasted up to 10 hours non-stop, with attendance rising to 20,000 participants.


 * Apart from the Falun Gong (with alleged following of 70 millions nationwide), several other organizations prospered during the time: Zhong Gong, Qing Yang, Tian Tang Baolian, Guo Gong, Cibei Gong, Dayan Gong. All of them are presently banned in PRC. The organizations were institutionalized by the China Qigong Scientific Research Association (Zhongguo qigong keyanhui 中国气功科研会), responsible for registration and monitoring of thousands of qigong-related establishments.


 * Prof. He Zuoxiu (born 1927) stood as an ardent opponent of qigong practices, claiming them to be pseudo-scientific.

TheProfessor (talk) 13:42, 20 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Nicely done. I have tightened the formatting and refs up a little. Some editors might prefer the citations be placed more precisely inline with the specific facts supported. I think they are adequate at the end of the paragraph. - - MrBill3 (talk) 15:21, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear all, in the original stub I was careful to check the Qigong history and made sure that the information does not repeat itself. As of the day, the summary does not provide referencing for individual statements and numbers, which I did my best to provide. Do you really consider the article in its present state as "improved"?--Shanghainese.ua (talk) 15:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello Shanghainese.ua. Thank you for your interest in this article.  If I understand, you would like to see this article expanded beyond what is currently in Qigong history, and you offered some additions that could be referenced and developed further.  I certainly encourage your contribution.  You are welcome to develop the treatment of Qigong fever further here or in the history article, including introducing back major points you made along and references.  The text you originally wrote would need to be developed further, put in context, and generally edited, and most importantly be based on a solid sources like Davis 2008, Clifton 2008l, and Palmer 2013.  TheProfessor (talk) 17:40, 2 January 2015 (UTC)