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Dr Jin Ye
Dr Jin Ye is from family of medical background; her grandfather was a well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Shanghai. Her parents are both qualified and experienced medical professionals, her father Professor Dr Jin is a highly recognized Shanghai doctor of western and Chinese medicine specializing in heart diseases in Shanghai. As a young child Dr Jin Ye was fascinated by her grandfather’s acupuncture, and was taught the basic skills of using acupuncture needles to treat certain illnesses.

She was almost brought up by her grandmother, Master Wu Ying Hua, and in the early 1970s she learned and practised Wu-style tai chi chuan under her grandmother's direction. In the early 1980s she started teaching Wu-style tai chi chuan in Shanghai under the direction of Master Wu Ying Hua and Master Ma Yue Liang.

In 1986 Dr Jin Ye graduated as a chemical pharmacist from the University run by the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Industrial Company and in 1989 she completed training in traditional Chinese medicine at the International Rehabilitation of Traditional Chinese Medicine College. For several years she worked at the Shanghai Red Cross hospital. In 1991 Dr Jin Ye moved to the UK to further study pharmaceutics, receiving a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2000.

Dr Jin Ye runs a successful tai chi chuan school in the West Yorkshire region, UK, as well as contributing to seminars and training sessions in London and Germany. She has been profiled in tai chi magazines and is a senior member of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain.