This is a superb book for the practitioner of CMA. It gives you an insight to the philosophy and motivation of some truly gifted teachers. It provides guidance on understanding your own approach to the Arts, while encouraging you to look further into the classical texts.
For those of us that are, at best part-time in pursuing our learning, this book introduces a range of people who ,in large part, are full time instructors. Their dedication to preserving the skills passed to them is worthy of recognition alone, aside from their obvious technical abilities. For this I salute them!!
All books have flaws. This is not an exception. The selection of Sifus' for inclusion is obviously driven by geography and economics.The vast majority are based in the US, although of Chinese origin. Maybe the subtitle should reflect that. It also provides an opportunity to expand the book into a series by connecting with the Masters in China, Taiwan and elsewhere, who would be worthy additions in a second and third volume. Then we would have a true classic!! - can we hope?