Nudism in China

According to an article from Shanghai by Tom Phillips inThe Telegraph

Renegade nudists have defied a Communist Party ban on nakedness by flocking to a tropical beach in southernChinawithout their swimming trunks.Dozens of naked bathers bared all on Dadonghai beach, a 1.4-mile stretch of sand known as China’s premier nudist destination, over the recent holiday weekend.Men “in various states of undress” had been spotted on the seafront, according to a report in the Shanghai Daily newspaper – “some naked, some with their underpants half stripped down”.“Many female tourists felt too awkward to approach the beach,” the newspaper added. “No law-enforcement officials were seen patrolling the beach on Saturday.”Police banned nudists from Dadonghai beach in Sanya in February following complaints from residents of Hainan, an island in the South China Sea that tourist chiefs promote as “China’s Hawaii”.