2019年8月22日 · BEIDAIHE, China — Most summers, the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong, made big and fateful decisions at a funky stretch of beach a few hundred miles east of the nation’s sweltering...

2019年8月22日 · BEIDAIHE, China — Most summers, the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong, made big and fateful decisions at a funky stretch of beach a few hundred miles east of the nation’s sweltering capital. He swam in weather fair or foul. He sat cross-legged in the sand, dressed only in black trunks, his portly belly exposed for all to see.

2000年7月28日 · Rumors that Deng Xiaoping was on the brink of death were countered by photos in the Chinese press of the patriarch swimming at Beidaihe. The heavily guarded villas among the trees underlined...

2014年8月31日 · Chairman Mao first visited the resort five years after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is widely known that Mao loved swimming there. And Deng Xiaoping, the legendary reformist, stayed longer in Beidaihe than others. He usually returned to Beijing after celebrating his birthday with family in Beidaihe in mid-August.

2019年8月22日 · 中国北戴河——大多数夏天，共产主义中国的创始人毛泽东都会从闷热的首都向东数百英里，来到一片时髦海滩，在那里作出重大、关键的决定。 无论天气好坏，他都会游泳。 他盘腿坐在沙滩上，只穿一条黑泳裤，大肚子露在外面。 他的继任者们既不是无畏的游泳健将，也不爱炫耀。 但他们仍然喜欢在每年8月来北戴河，这里是破旧的海滨度假胜地与围着高墙的高档别墅的混合体。...

Chairman Mao went swimming at Beidaihe: that's the story Ms Yang always heard when she was young. The grandmother from Zhuozhou City had never been to the Chinese Communist Party's seaside playground until this year, its crab feasts, early 20th century European style-villas and heaving summer crowds foreign to her.

2014年8月26日 · Beidaihe, a district in Qinhuangdao city with population of about 600,000, is not the beach with the clearest waters, most comfortable weather or even most advanced entertainment facilities. But it is the most special of them all. Beidaihe has been popular as a summer resort since the early 1920s.

2014年9月1日 · During the second stay in Beidaihe, Mao had a good time swimming and even held competitions with youngsters. Mao even wrote a poem in praise of Beidaihe after a heavy rain swamped the area.

Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish explores Chinese President Hu Jintao’s aversion to swimming, which leaders such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping once utilized to demonstrate their health and...

examines the constructive process and meanings of Mao’s swimming body, and the extent to which the bodies of the populace were regulated through the mass-swimming craze. Drawing on untapped archival materials related to mass swimming in Mao’s China, this article argues that swimming both solidified and