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Brave Dragons : a Chinese basketball team, an American coach, and two cultures clashing / Jim Yardley ; [map by Steven Shukow].
Van Pelt Library GV885.52.S53 Y37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yardley, Jim, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons (Basketball team).
- Basketball--China.
- Basketball.
- Social change--China.
- Social change.
- China.
- Americans--China.
- Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Summary:
- From the former "New York Times" Beijing bureau chief comes a closely observed story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to make the playoffs by copying the American stars of the NBA--a season of cultural misunderstanding that would transcend sports and reveal China's ambivalent relationship with the West.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Summer 2008
- The purge
- Pieces
- Basketball is life
- Shooting the messengers
- Selling air
- Rumors
- The ambassador
- Birthplace of the game
- Merry Christmas
- Bodies
- Yao's house
- Corner pockets
- Red soldier
- LOL
- Cast-outs
- The promised land
- Black whistles
- Tenth place
- Epilogue.
- ISBN:
- 9780307272218
- 0307272214
- OCLC:
- 727702857
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