+ Follow BIG FANG Tag
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[Title] => Chinas big balls plan Part 3
[Summary] => By some accounts, Fang Fengdi, then a tall, strong, overworked teen-ager recruited for Chinas national basketball team, became a vindictive unit leader of the Red Guard when Mao Tse-tung decided that all decadent Western influences should be obliterated from Chinese memory, particularly the foreign values taught by sports. This was greatly helped by the fact that Big Fangs generation had no memories of a time before communism swept the nation. All they knew was obedience to the party. Everything, even the female athletes hair, had been cut short in blind fealty.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Bill Velasco
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[Title] => Chinas big balls plan, part 2
[Summary] => In the late 1950s, Chinas national leaders realized that sports was not only a way to improve fitness and increase output among its people, and a tool to use teamwork to preach communism, but also a means to increase its stature among nations. After closing its doors to the west, China achieved world recognition for table tennis. Still, it was not considered a mainstream sport, and this bothered the highest-ranking officers of the nation.
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[Summary] => In the late 1950s, Chinas national leaders realized that sports was not only a way to improve fitness and increase output among its people, and a tool to use teamwork to preach communism, but also a means to increase its stature among nations. After closing its doors to the west, China achieved world recognition for table tennis. Still, it was not considered a mainstream sport, and this bothered the highest-ranking officers of the nation.
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