Biographic Sketch of Wang Yen-nien
| Personal |
| Birth Date |
December 19, 1914 |
| Birth Place |
Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, China |
| Styled |
Fushuo, Yungkang |
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| Education / Experience |
| 1932 – 1934 |
Shanxi Province Police Academy, First Graduating Class. |
| 1932 – 1937 |
Taijiquan, studied Yang style in Shanxi Province with Wang Xingwu, student of Yang Banhou. |
| 1938 – 1945 |
Sino-Japanese War, fought under Shanxi Province Warlord General Yen Xisan, rising in rank from Platoon Leader to Company Commander, to Battalion Commander, to Regimental Commander, to Assistant Division Commander. |
| 1945 – 1949 |
Taijiquan, received an apprenticeship with Zhang Qinling to study the Yang Family Hidden Tradition of Taijiquan. Zhang was a student of both Yang Jianho and Yang’s son, Yang Chenfu. |
| 1945 – 1949 |
Civial War between the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China, fought under Yen Xisan, and retreated (1949) with the Nationalist government and army to Formosa (now Taiwan, the Republic of China.) |
| 1949 – 1954 |
Ministry of National Defense, with a rank of Colonel, served under Yen Xisan, who was acting president of the ROX from 1949 – 1953; withdrewm from government service in 1954 after Yen Xisan stepped down. |
| 1954 |
Taijiquan, began teaching the Yang Family Hidden Tradition of Taijiquan in a small park, which was later designated a war memorial to a group of Shanxi Province Communist resisters who committed suicide rather than stay under Communist rule. |
| 1956 – 1986 |
Vice-Chairman and Founding Father of the National Tai Chi Chuan Associationg of the ROC. (Original name of the NTCCA is Zhong Mei Wenhua Taijiquan Xueshu Yenjiu Hui.) |
| 1986 1989 |
Charinman, National Tai Chi Chuan Association of the ROC and the International Tai Chi Chuan Federation. |
| 1989 |
Elected Honorary President for Life of the National Tai Chi Chuan Association of the ROC. |
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