Zhuang Zedong (simplified Chinese: 庄则栋; traditional Chinese: 莊則棟; Pinyin: Zhuāng Zédòng; Wade-Giles: Chuang Tsetung) (born 1942) is a Chinese table tennis player, three-time world men's singles champion and champion at numerous other table tennis events, 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, was considered in China to have triggered the thawing of the ice in Sino-American relations since 1949. Zhuang was once married to the pianist Bao Huiqiao, and his second wife is the Chinese-born Japanese Sasaki Atsuko (佐々木敦子).
Read more about Zhuang Zedong: Early Life, Unique Style Among Penholders, Actor of The Ping Pong Diplomacy, Cultural Revolution and Consequences, New Life in Beijing, Marriage With Sasaki Atsuko
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)