Dr. Qi was born October 15, 1919.

Dr. Qi Jiang Tao started practising Taijiquan because of severe tuberculosis in 1937.
He studied with Chang Teh-Fu (taught by Li Chin-Lin, student of Yang Pan-Hou, the eldest son of Yang Lu-Ch’an (the founder of the Yang school of Taijiquan) from 1942 till 1944.
In 1948 he moved to Taiwan.

From 1955 till 1965 he studied with Zheng Manqing, whose teacher was Yang Chen-Fu (nephew of Yang Pan-Hou) and was recognised as one of his most advanced students.

In 1966 he was one of the 104 teachers to start the  中國太極拳學術研究會,  Zhongguo Taijiquan xueshù yánjiūhuì,
Chinese Taijiquan Learning & Research Association, of which he was one of the directors. Read more...

1959 – 1988 dr. Qi taught Taiji quan and Taiji jian.

He came to London from Taiwan in the 1970s and taught John Kells at the British Tai Chi Association.

Dr. Qi Jiang-tao came to the UK to teach John Kells at the British Tai Chi Chuan Association. The patron of the association was Grandmaster Yang Shou-chung. The BTCCA was a branch of the Tai Chi Chuan Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan, not the mainland) and co-sponsor of the International Tai Chi Chuan League and member of the then British Kung-Fu Council.

Mr Kwee Swan Hoo (co-founder of the Dutch Taijiquan Association) and Mr Ruud Westerkamp (founder of BOCAM) were both students of dr. Qi.

1980 Dr. Qi moved to Vancouver, until his death in 1994 he kept teaching.

1994 Dr. Qi passed away (on what day exactly?)