Wikipedia:John Dolic

John Dolic (born June 13, 1959) is an Australian practitioner of Chinese medicine, Qigong and Kung Fu instructor and author. He was the first westerner to complete the six-year full-time course and gain a degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine thus becoming one of the pioneers of Chinese medicine in the west.

John was the editor and publisher of Australia's only Qigong magazine QI GONG chinesehealth. He wrote a book Qigong Demystified and has several times appeared on Australia's radio, television and newspapers.

Early life
Dolic was born on 13 June 1959 in a small town, some 150 km north of Sarajevo, in what was then known as Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is the only son and the third of four children and grew up in a working-class family. As a teenager Dolic became interested in eastern culture, primarily in their traditional martial arts and philosophy. Hoping to one day realise his dream of living and exploring East Asia, Dolic went on to study Chinese language at Belgrade University and applied to become an exchange student.

Studying and living in China
One year later, in August 1979, Dolic found himself in Beijing where he stayed for the next eight years, studying Mandarin for two years and Chinese medicine for six years. In 1987 he gained a degree in Chinese Medicine, making him the first westerner ever to complete the six-year full-time course with a degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. During the same period he continued his Chinese language and literature studies (part-time) and in 1986 he gained a B.A. in Mandarin from the Beijing Language and Culture University.

During his stay in China, Dolic visited many schools and masters of Qigong, Kung Fu and Tai Chi and had been practicing many styles notably Spontaneous Five Animals Play Qigong, Walking Qigong, Fragrant Qigong and Sleeping Qigong, as well as Kung Fu styles Baguazhang, Long Fist, Shaolin and Yang style of Tai Chi Chuan.

Return to the country, army service and beginning of career
Upon returning to Yugoslavia, Dolic spent a year in the army which was a compulsory service for all young, healthy, male citizens. After discharge, he and his Chinese wife, also a practitioner of Chinese medicine, opened a private clinic in Zagreb, Croatia. However, after less than three years of building career, due to the unstable political situation which soon erupted into a civil war, the Dolics left the country and moved first to Beijing for one year and then to Sydney, Australia.

Career in Australia
Soon after arriving in Sydney, Dolic opened a private practice and started teaching Chinese medicine at the Acupuncture Colleges of Australia (now University of Technology Sydney) (1992–93) followed by teaching and becoming a member of the executive committee as well as the  secretary of the Sydney College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine) (1993–97). During the same period he became a member of the executive committee as well as the secretary of the Register of Acupuncture and TCM (1993–97) where one of his duties was assessing foreign diplomas and testing their holders’ knowledge of Chinese medicine in order to become members of the Register and be eligible for Australian insurance and health fund rebates (for their patients).

From 1995 Dolic was operating his private business in Mosman, one of the northern suburbs of Sydney, under his own name then, in 2008, he registered it as Qi Gong Chinese Health and under that name it is still being operated to the present day. Since 2010 the business has been operating online as well. Apart from using Chinese medicine in the treatment and prevention of various illnesses, Dolic has taught Qigong, Kung Fu and Tai Chi and was the editor and publisher of the only Australian magazine for Qigong - QI GONG chinesehealth from 2001 to 2006. The magazine was distributed to magazine shops all across Australia and was also available via subscription internationally.

During the late 1990s Dolic was invited to judge and be a referee at many Kung Fu competitions in Sydney while some of his students competed and won first prizes in some of those tournaments, notably the Battle of the Dragons. Since 1997 he has been a Duty Chairman of the Chinese & Australian Tai-chi Pa-kua Federation.

He has appeared on Nine Network’s popular daytime program ‘Mornings with Kerry Anne’, and there were many articles about him published in Australia's leading papers like the Sunday Telegraph as well as being interviewed in popular radio stations.

In 2011 Dolic published his first book Qigong Demystified that has been since translated into Bosnian and is currently in the process of being translated into Polish and Portuguese.

From 2014 to 2016 he was teaching Chinese Exercise Therapy at Endeavour College of Natural Health in Sydney as a part of the curriculum of the Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture) degree.

Dolic holds regular workshops, seminars and courses worldwide, thus passing his knowledge onto the future generations as well working on the projects of mutual interest with the scientific community. The subjects vary from Chinese medicine, acupuncture, Qigong and Tai Chi to Kung Fu, Taoism and Buddhism.