The primary sources
The second Western student’s own account, and the only substantial one that is not Danaos’s. It matters for exactly that reason: where the two men describe the same events, the archive can compare them, and where McMillan describes Chang differently the difference is worth reading. Level entries on this site that cite "Jim McMillan’s accounts" mean this book and his later teaching.
Related article: The Western Transmission
The founding Western text and the reason anyone outside Java has heard of any of this. Danaos's account of training under John Chang is the source for the level structure, the 72-level ladder, the biography, and most…
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The technical follow-up. More method, more context on where Mo Pai sits among internal martial traditions, and more of the theory the first book only gestured at.
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The book of the television series that contained the four minutes of "Dynamo Jack" footage — still the only visual documentation of the claims made by anyone outside the tradition.
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