By Dong Jinxia
Drawing on chinese language assets hitherto unavailable within the West together with reputable records and interviews with most sensible athletes, the writer explores the increase of chinese language large sportswomen and their courting with politics, tradition and society earlier than and through the Cultural Revolution and during China's transition to a industry economic climate.
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10 This commission was in charge of the formulation and implementation of sports policy in all its forms and the administration of the national sports programme. It liaised closely with other government ministries such as Education and National Defence. Subsequently, a lot of local sports establishments at the level of province, city or county came into being between 1953 and 1954, as illustrated by the three case studies below. A centralised system of sports administration had taken shape by the mid-1950s (see Figure 2).
I had my first child when I was 33 and my second when I was 43. 36 Finally, a number of high-level military and party leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhu De loved sport, and many former military officers acquired positions in sports administration37 after the New China was set up. Marshal Helong, the vice-premier of the state, for example, was in charge of the National Sports Commission. They were undoubtedly bridges between the army and sports commissions. The PLA not only produced numerous elite athletes38 but also greatly influenced the course of Chinese elite sport.
Innovation based both on learning from others and on one’s own initiative was the gateway to victory. Nevertheless, obsequious copying Women, sport and society in modern china 32 was not abandoned until 1958, when relationships between the USSR and China began to deteriorate, especially after Soviet experts withdrew from China in 1960 (see Chapter 2). Relations between China and the USSR were by no means completely harmonious. First, Stalin firmly believed in the Marxist-Leninist concept of a revolution based on the urban proletariat, while Mao believed that in a country like China the revolution should be based on the peasantry.