Tag: China

Guest Post: History of Chinese Weightlifting Part 3: Crash and Recovery through the Cultural Revolution

Today's post comes primarily from the Ma Strength Olympic weightlifting book written by Manuel Buitrago, an expert on Chinese weightlifting techniques. After the failure of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) and subsequent natural disasters affecting crop harvests, China entered the Great Famine of 1962–63 (Fan & Lu 2012a). Additionally, while the experience with Soviet teams laid... Continue Reading →

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Guest Post: History of Chinese Weightlifting Part 2: Republican Period – Great Leap Forward

Chen Jingkai World Record

Today's post comes primarily from the Ma Strength Olympic weightlifting book written by Manuel Buitrago, an expert on Chinese weightlifting techniques. In part 1, we finished off with the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912. From here, China entered a tumultuous period to establish itself as a Republic and gain international recognition. Therefore, reformers kept... Continue Reading →

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