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==Taiwan== Cheng moved to Taiwan in 1949 with the retreating [[Republican Chinese]] government. He continued his career as a physician and as a teacher of his new tai chi form, as well as actively practicing painting, poetry, and calligraphy. He published ''Cheng's 13 Chapters of Tai Chi Boxing'' in 1950 which has been translated into [[English language|English]] twice. He started the Shih Chung T'ai Chi Association in Taipei, where many now well-known students including (Benjamin Lo, Liu Hsi-heng, Hsu I-chung, Qi Jiang Tao, [[Robert W. Smith (writer)|Robert W. Smith]], T. T. Liang, [[William C. C. Chen]], [[Huang Sheng Shyan]] and others{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}) trained with him. Though he tended not to advertise it, Cheng served as one of the painting teachers of [[Soong Mei-ling]], Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whom he taught to paint "birds and flowers" style (his colleague [[Huang Junbi]] instructed her in landscape painting. Cheng also continued to be a medical advisor to [[Chiang Kai-shek]].
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