Peitaiho

In Funing county of Hopei province, in the opposite direction to Chinhuangtao, if you go from Peitaiho, we saw then a reservoir built in 1959 to tame the Yangho River which had been a menace in the past.

My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling." I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.

Peitaiho Beach is a seashore community created originally by and for westerners (i.e., non-Chinese). It became a very popular resort to escape the summer heat and humidity of inland cities. This community was connected by a spur line to the main line of the railway, the junction of which was at the town of Peitaiho, through which flowed a small river of the same name. Peitaiho Beach is on the Gulf of Chihli, approximately 15 miles from the China-Manchuria border.