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Zhuang was born in 1940 and he joined the Chinese National Table Tennis team as a teenager. His coach was [[Fu Qifang]]. In 1961, at the 26th World Table Tennis Championship, he won his first men's singles championship, and at the next two World Table Tennis Championships, the 27th and 28th in 1963 and 1965 respectively, he again won the men's singles championship.<ref name="peoplechina"/> |
Zhuang was born in 1940 and he joined the Chinese National Table Tennis team as a teenager. His coach was [[Fu Qifang]]. In 1961, at the 26th World Table Tennis Championship, he won his first men's singles championship, and at the next two World Table Tennis Championships, the 27th and 28th in 1963 and 1965 respectively, he again won the men's singles championship.<ref name="peoplechina"/> |
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| ⚫ | On January 20, 1968, two years into the [[Cultural Revolution]], the two were married in the [[dormitory]] room of Bao Huiqiao at the [[National Music Conservatory]] in [[Beijing]]. Since the beginning of the [[Cultural Revolution]] in 1966, Zhuang had not been able to pursue his career as a table tennis player as usual, nor had Bao hers as a pianist. |
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He also won numerous champion titles at various other regional, national and international table tennis events, and the number of his championship titles exceeds all those won by the other members of the Chinese national team combined. No other single table tennis player has ever won so many championship titles.{{cn}} |
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In the fall of 1959, Zhuang Zedong met the pianist, Bao Huiqiao, in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], at the 7th [[World Youth Peace and Friendship Festival]]. She was there, along with the pianist [[Yin Chengzong]], to participate in a [[piano]] competition.{{cn}} |
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At the [[Spring Festival]] party given by [[Peng Zhen]], the [[mayor]] of [[Beijing]] in 1962, Zhuang Zedong met Bao Huiqiao again and sent her a toy model car that he won as an award in a game at the party.{{cn}} |
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| ⚫ | On January 20, 1968, two years into the [[Cultural Revolution]], the two were married in the [[dormitory]] room of Bao Huiqiao at the [[National Music Conservatory]] in [[Beijing]]. Since the beginning of the [[Cultural Revolution]] in 1966, Zhuang had not been able to pursue his career as a table tennis player as usual, nor had Bao hers as a pianist. |
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== Cultural Revolution and consequences == |
== Cultural Revolution and consequences == |
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In 1973, Zhuang Zedong became a favorite of [[Jiang Qing]], wife of [[Mao Zedong]] and leader of the [[Cultural Revolution]]. |
In 1973, Zhuang Zedong became a favorite of [[Jiang Qing]], wife of [[Mao Zedong]] and leader of the [[Cultural Revolution]]. After the downfall in October, 1976 of the [[Gang of Four]] of which [[Jiang Qing]] was a member, Zhuang Zedong was jailed and investigated.<ref name="tokyo"/> In 1980, the investigation ended and he was sent to [[Taiyuan]], [[Shanxi]] to work as a coach of the provincial table tennis team. |
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Bao and Zhang had one daughter before their divorce.<ref>Zhuang Zedong |
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In 1975, Bao Huiqiao gave birth to a daughter, Zhuang Lan.{{cn}} |
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After the downfall in October, 1976 of the [[Gang of Four]] of which [[Jiang Qing]] was a member, Zhuang Zedong was jailed and investigated.<ref name="tokyo"/> In 1980, the investigation ended and he was sent to [[Taiyuan]], [[Shanxi]] to work as a coach of the provincial table tennis team, which made technical progress in leaps and bounds under his coaching.{{cn}} |
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== New life in Beijing == |
== New life in Beijing == |
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== Marriage to Sasaki Atsuko == |
== Marriage to Sasaki Atsuko == |
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Later in 1985, the Chinese-born Japanese woman, Sasaki Atsuko met Zhuang in Beijing. Sasaki was born in 1944 in [[Zhangye]], [[Gansu]], [[China]] to [[Japan]]ese parents. Her family did not move back to Japan until 1976. By this time, Sasaki had finished her high-school education in China and her father had died of [[cancer]] in [[Lanzhou]]. Sasaki Atsuko had met Zhuang Zedong previously in Japan in 1971 and 1972 and was a [[fan (aficionado)|fan]] of Zhuang. |
Later in 1985, the Chinese-born Japanese woman, Sasaki Atsuko met Zhuang in Beijing. Sasaki was born in 1944 in [[Zhangye]], [[Gansu]], [[China]] to [[Japan]]ese parents. Her family did not move back to Japan until 1976. By this time, Sasaki had finished her high-school education in China and her father had died of [[cancer]] in [[Lanzhou]]. Sasaki Atsuko had met Zhuang Zedong previously in Japan in 1971 and 1972 and was a [[fan (aficionado)|fan]] of Zhuang. |
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Sasaki told Zhuang that she would be unable to bear his child, because she had had a [[womb]] [[tumor]] earlier and had had a [[hysterectomy]].{{cn}} |
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When Zhuang and Sasaki decided to get married, both had to go through a difficult political process due to the political environment in China. Zhuang had to write to [[Jiang Zemin]] and [[Deng Xiaoping]] about the matter, and Sasaki had to give up her Japanese [[citizenship]] and apply for Chinese citizenship. Eventually, Zhuang and Sasaki got married |
When Zhuang and Sasaki decided to get married, both had to go through a difficult political process due to the political environment in China. Zhuang had to write to [[Jiang Zemin]] and [[Deng Xiaoping]] about the matter, and Sasaki had to give up her Japanese [[citizenship]] and apply for Chinese citizenship. Eventually, Zhuang and Sasaki got married in 1987.<ref>South China Morning Post |
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Zhuang and Sasaki lived together for 26 years. Zhuang wrote a book about their story, entitled ''Deng Xiaoping approved our marriage''. Zhuang opened an international ping-pong club in Beijing. He visited the United States in 2007, speaking at USC and other universities about his role in fostering better relations between China and the United States.<ref name="usc"/> |
Zhuang and Sasaki lived together for 26 years. Zhuang wrote a book about their story, entitled ''Deng Xiaoping approved our marriage''. Zhuang opened an international ping-pong club in Beijing. He visited the United States in 2007, speaking at USC and other universities about his role in fostering better relations between China and the United States.<ref name="usc"/> |
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Zhuang Zedong (August 25, 1940 in Yangzhou – February 10, 2013 in Beijing)[1] was a Chinese table tennis player, three-time world men's singles champion and champion at numerous other table tennis events and a well-known political personality during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. His chance meeting with the US table tennis player, Glenn Cowan, during the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, later referred to as Ping Pong Diplomacy, triggered the first thawing of the ice in Sino-American relations since 1949. Zhuang was once married to the pianist Bao Huiqiao, and his second wife was the Chinese-born Japanese Sasaki Atsuko (佐々木敦子).[2]
Early life
Zhuang was born in 1940 and he joined the Chinese National Table Tennis team as a teenager. His coach was Fu Qifang. In 1961, at the 26th World Table Tennis Championship, he won his first men's singles championship, and at the next two World Table Tennis Championships, the 27th and 28th in 1963 and 1965 respectively, he again won the men's singles championship.[2]
On January 20, 1968, two years into the Cultural Revolution, the two were married in the dormitory room of Bao Huiqiao at the National Music Conservatory in Beijing. Since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Zhuang had not been able to pursue his career as a table tennis player as usual, nor had Bao hers as a pianist.
Actor of Ping Pong Diplomacy
In late 1969, the training of the National Table Tennis Team resumed as a result of the intervention of Premier Zhou Enlai, and in 1971, Zhuang Zedong and the Chinese team attended the 31st World Table Tennis Championship. One day during the championship in Nagoya, Japan, the US team member, Glenn Cowan, got onto the bus of the Chinese team, and Zhuang Zedong greeted him and presented him with a silk-screen portrait of the Huangshan Mountains, thus starting the so-called Ping Pong Diplomacy.[3][4] Ten months after Zhuang's chance meeting with Cowan, Richard Nixon, then the president of the United States, visited China in February, 1972. Only two months later, Zhuang led the Chinese table tennis delegation to the United States from April 18 to 30, as part of an 18-day trip including Canada, Mexico and Peru. The so-called Ping Pong Diplomacy eventually led to the normalization of Sino-US relationships in 1979.
Cultural Revolution and consequences
In 1973, Zhuang Zedong became a favorite of Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong and leader of the Cultural Revolution. After the downfall in October, 1976 of the Gang of Four of which Jiang Qing was a member, Zhuang Zedong was jailed and investigated.[4] In 1980, the investigation ended and he was sent to Taiyuan, Shanxi to work as a coach of the provincial table tennis team.
Bao and Zhang had one daughter before their divorce.[5]
New life in Beijing
In 1985, Zhuang was allowed to return to Beijing again, and it was arranged that he would coach the young table tennis players at the Palace of Youth in Beijing. Zhuang's relationship with Bao Huiqiao had been reportedly deteriorating during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution and was not to be repaired. On February 2, 1985, he and Bao Huiqiao were officially divorced.[6]
About this time, Zhuang Zedong published his book Chuang Yu Chuang (Simplified Chinese: 闯与创 (Adventure and Creation)).[7]
Marriage to Sasaki Atsuko
Later in 1985, the Chinese-born Japanese woman, Sasaki Atsuko met Zhuang in Beijing. Sasaki was born in 1944 in Zhangye, Gansu, China to Japanese parents. Her family did not move back to Japan until 1976. By this time, Sasaki had finished her high-school education in China and her father had died of cancer in Lanzhou. Sasaki Atsuko had met Zhuang Zedong previously in Japan in 1971 and 1972 and was a fan of Zhuang.
When Zhuang and Sasaki decided to get married, both had to go through a difficult political process due to the political environment in China. Zhuang had to write to Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping about the matter, and Sasaki had to give up her Japanese citizenship and apply for Chinese citizenship. Eventually, Zhuang and Sasaki got married in 1987.[8]
Zhuang and Sasaki lived together for 26 years. Zhuang wrote a book about their story, entitled Deng Xiaoping approved our marriage. Zhuang opened an international ping-pong club in Beijing. He visited the United States in 2007, speaking at USC and other universities about his role in fostering better relations between China and the United States.[3]
Cancer and death
Zhuang Zedong was diagnosed of late-stage colon cancer in 2008. Although he sought treatment in various hospitals around China, the tumour metastasized to his liver and lungs. Five months before his death, he only had one eighth of his liver left. He requested euthanasia, but was denied by his doctors.[9] On 10 February 2013, the first day of the Chinese New Year, Zhuang died at You'an Hospital in Beijing,[9] at the age of 72.[10] Within a day there were 300,000 messages about this death on Chinese microblogging sites.[9]
References
- ^ "Zhuang Zedong, Chinese 'ping-pong diplomacy' player, dies". BBC News. 2013-02-10. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
- ^ a b "ピンポンの球が世界を動かした 卓球一筋に生きる荘則棟さん" (in Template:Ja icon). 人民中国. 2003. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b Ping-pong melts Cold War rifts
- ^ a b "選手から大臣…隔離も『ピンポン外交』荘則棟氏". Tokyo Shimbun (in Template:Ja icon). July 8, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Zhuang Zedong 10 Feb 2013 Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/9861200/Zhuang-Zedong.html
- ^ "China's ping-pong diplomat left out in the cold". Reuters. 6 June 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ Chuang yu chuang. 1985.
- ^ South China Morning Post Briefs, February 12, 2013 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1148265/briefs-february-12-2013
- ^ a b c "中美乒乓外交功臣庄则栋去世 已与癌症抗争多年". Sohu (in Chinese). 11 February 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ^ "Zhuang Zedong, athlete and key figure in 1971 China-US 'pingpong diplomacy,' dies at 72". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
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