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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<span></span></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US">I would like to share with you that my
monograph <i>Body and Ki in GiCheon - Practices of Self-Cultivation in
Contemporary Korea</i> has been published by Ergon:</span></p><div><img src="cid:ii_keo32npx0" alt="image.png" width="317" height="454"><br><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US">This is the first English language book
that studies contemporary practices of self-cultivation in South Korea called
<i>ki suryŏn</i> (</span><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif" lang="KO">氣修練</span><span style="background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"> training related to <i>ki </i>– “life energy”), reinvented in modernity
similarly to Indian yoga and Chinese qigong. I focus on GiCheon, one of the <i>ki
suryŏn</i> practices. <span></span></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ergon-shop.de/titel/body-and-ki-in-gicheon-id-89162/">https://www.ergon-shop.de/titel/body-and-ki-in-gicheon-id-89162/</a><span></span></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Sincerely,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Victoria<span></span></span></p>





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